EUGENE MARAIS
Although we shot with automatic assault rifles and because of the conflict of the past we were fully aware of the destructive abilities of such weapons.  You must understand that when we attacked, it was at night.  The stretch of road was pitch dark, there were no street lights.  We were shooting at a moving target from a moving vehicle.  We were shooting blindly into the night.
Anybody who knows anything about automatic arms, is that when you use such a weapon, the barrel climbs, in other words you don't shoot straight.  The longer you shoot, the higher you shoot.  The duration of this attack, because we shot with automatic weapons, and if one looks at the rate at which these rifles fire, this attack took about two and a half to three seconds.  What I am trying to say is that we couldn't predict - we couldn't foresee that seven people would die - it could have been more, it could have been fewer.