EDWARD WEBB
Chairperson, the idea was to frighten them off, to give them a severe fright and that's why the bomb had to explode as soon as possible after they'd left the hall.  I suppose they could have met again under a tree or in a shebeen or wherever, but some of those people would have said "Look, I'm done with this, I'm not going to take part in this kind of thing."  Some of the more hardened people might have said "Yes, I'll continue."  But this kind of thing would have had a different effect on different people.