MR BRINK
Very, very briefly, Mr Chairman, Members of the Committee.  What does give me cause for concern is the fact that the Trust Feed area was - and cannot be better described than in the words of WILSON J during the course of the trial - as a haven of peace at the time when the applicant arrived there.  He arrives as station commander in January 1988 at a time when the Crisis Committee was representative of both the landowners and the tenants.  He then gets involved with Inkatha, helps to form the Landowners Committee, and within -I think it was six months of that committee being organised, violence erupts.  In October, and again November, subsequently the massacre itself.  And one wonders why, if his instructions were to take out the members of the UDF, or those perceived to be members of the UDF, why the extensive police powers which the police had at that time could not have been employed, namely detentions.  That detention concentrates the mind quite considerably.
However, the victims and the next of kin in this matter, through their attorney, have indicated that although they find it difficult at this stage to forgive, and while they do not support the application, they do not oppose it, and that, with submission, is a healthy attitude.  Because I believe, in all fairness to the applicant, and to the victims and the next of kind, there seems to be an embryonic growth towards reconciliation,
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and if that can be achieved that would be the most marvellous, marvellous thing.
And in those circumstances I do not oppose the grant of this application.  I do not.  I think in fairness as well what my learned friend for the applicant has said in regard to the four special constables - admittedly they were a lesser breed, so to speak, and under the applicant's orders, but the applicant was under superior orders, and no doubt his superior was under superior orders, and that will be investigated and no doubt the truth will come out.  But in the circumstances I think it only fair to say that I certainly do not oppose this application for amnesty.  
That is all I have to say unless there are any other matters you wish me to deal with.