ABOOBAKER ISMAIL
No Chairperson, but I want to go further.  The ANC has always marked many of the dates of operations.  When we carried out the SASOL attack, we were hoping to carry it out on the night before Republic, unfortunately we only managed to carry it out on the night of the Declaration of Republic.  That cannot by any stretch of the imagination be considered retaliatory.  When an operation is carried out on January 12th, the anniversary of the ANC it cannot be considered retaliatory.  A retaliatory attack for June 16 would be if the ANC went and massacred white school children in their schools. The ANC never did.  We never gave such orders.  I'm not finished Mr Richard.  When innocent civilians are massacred, peoples of another country, Botswana citizens amongst them, unarmed people in their beds, we did not then order the massacre of white civilians in their beds.  That is retaliatory.  There was no personal gain, there was no personal motive.  What does the Act say about it?  There was no retaliation in that sense.  Now, when our people are massacred, we reserve the right to defend ourselves and to fight.  We fought and we made the enemy bleed, that's what we were doing, we were fighting for the liberation of our people, there was no retaliation.  We have said before, if we wanted to massacre whites, we wouldn't have bothered to come the full length and gone through a lot of pain in order to get into the bases and to strike at Security Force personnel.  We could have massacred, we never did.