MR KNOETZE
The paragraph continues
"During this time the government's policy was clear; stop the perpetrator of violence at all costs, the carrier of the car-bomb, land-mine, limpet-mine from the neighbouring States had to be destroyed outside our borders or inside the country, before he could commit his atrocity.  The destruction of the terrorists his base and his capacity was the mission of every soldier in the South African Defence Force and was also the policy of the government of the day.  In this way the killings of innocent civilians could be prevented."
Were you aware at the time of what I've just read to you, that this was the government's policy?