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Brigadier you can then continue to the second-lastparagraph.
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  "...The period between 1985 and 1988 witnessed unprecedentedviolence overwhelmingly directed at black civilians as the regimefought to regain the strategic initiative it had lost.   It employedunbridled terrorists, violence and a range of overt and covertmeasures which are dealt with more fully elsewhere in this document.  MK attacks mounted steadily with most operations concentratedon targets as set out in ANC policy.  There was an all-round intensificationof efforts
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   to destroy all organs of the apartheid state to encourage theemergence of the people's war summed up in a 1986 slogan 'everypatriot a combatant - every combatant a patriot' and to promotethe establishment of organs of people's power.   By the end of1986 the regime had lost administrative control over large partsof the country.   It was during the mid-80's that attacks on certaintargets with no directly apparent connection to the apartheidstate took place.   In some areas these attacks resulted fromthe manner in which cadres interpreted the decision to sharplyintensify the armed struggle which would entail exercising lessrestraint and the call to take the struggle to the white areas.  Militant rhetoric in (indistinct) articles reflected the moodof the times.   The attack on South African refugees in Botswanaby the racist forces just before the conference, emphasised theneed for our movement to bleed the enemy.   Most of those cadreswho carried out bona fide operations of this nature hadreason to believe that they were operating in accordance withthe political will of the leadership of the ANC, but the apartheidregime was very quick to exploit this tactical shift with regardto its intensification of the struggle and shift and focus ofarmed operations combined with the misinterpretation of thosedecisions by some cadres, carried out a number of false flag attackson civilian targets with the sole objective of destroying theANC's claim to the moral
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highground..."