TESTIMONY_GIVER:
  It was a situation - when one looks at the political arena at the time you find there are bomb explosions.  The perpetrators were not blowing up pylons, they were not blowing up bridges, they were not blowing up Government offices, they were not blowing up the army barracks.  In this instance innocent people were being affected, innocent people were being killed.  And I know for a fact that in a struggle like this innocent people get caught in the crossfire, but I couldn't allow the death of my brother to go in vain, and the Government of the day had a responsibility - not to put people in gaol and chase them overseas in exile, but they had a responsibility to start talking to the leaders of the respective communities, the leaders of organisations which were rightly and justifiably - which justifiably belonged to this country.  Any by banning the organisation and putting people in gaol they couldn't achieve what was the right thing to do, and these type of atrocities would have continued.  And I thought it best that I make a statement like this, much to the detriment of myself in terms of my family.  It was difficult to have made a decision to speak out in that fashion, more so when my own brother and sister-in-law were killed.