MR BOTHA
Mr Chairman, if you look back at what happened in history, like for instance when America dropped the two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hundreds of thousands of people were killed after the dropping of one bomb. That was not done to commit mass murder, but to compel the Japanese government to stop the war, to prevent further loss of human life, to bring an end to the aggression on the part of the Japanese people.
And those were my objectives - to stop the aggression of the PAC, to change their views.  As far as I was concerned at the time, the only way in which that could be done was not by means of half-hearted conduct but to act in a very forceful manner to bring that message across.