ABOOBAKER ISMAIL
Mr Chairperson, perhaps I should refer Mr Richard to the quote by the President of the ANC at the time, comrade O.R. Tambo and as he put it, I will summarise and I quote
"... I will summarise the position taken by the Conference in these terms, that the struggle must be intensified at all costs.  Over the past nine to ten months at least, at the very least, there have been many soft targets hit by the enemy, nearly 500 people have now died in that period, massacred, shot down, killed secretly.  All these were very, very soft targets, they belonged to the sphere of the intensification of the struggle.  What we have seen in places like the Eastern Cape is what escalation means for everybody.  The distinction between hard and soft targets, is going to disappear in an intensified conflict in an escalating conflict."
	That is what we are talking about.  We are talking about atrocities committed by the regime and the ANC's position that they were going to strike back.