W RIAAN BELLINGAN
My personal feeling was almost that it was a situation similar to having to foil a bank robbery.  If you know that the people are armed and the situation in the Black townships was ungovernable at the time, I was of the opinion that this was not going to be a Sunday School picnic and that we would be shot at and we would not allow a single policemen to be killed that morning.  So, I might have said to my juniors, look, we are going to actually shoot them dead if they should raise their weapons and aim it at us, because I did not want to have a sort of a Trojan Horse situation to the detriment of innocent people.  We would  have shot them dead.