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Yes Mr Chair, these activists were generally,at least those which we targeted for elimination, were generallythe stronger activists, the more intelligent activist, a personwho would have incited the youth to action of various other criminalacts, necklacing murders and then at the last moment he wouldhave stood back after having incited the youth to these actions.  To arrest these persons subsequently would have been a wasteof time, I
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imagine that one of the persons that gave testimony that we didnot need further Nelson Mandela's, if this person would
have been allowed out of jail this person would have become ahero to his community, which we could not have allowed at thattime.   It would not have been proper at that time to create heroesin this manner.    By eliminating such a person there would automaticallyhave been an effect on the civilians who, along with the militaryand police targets which we then in our own way we attempted todefend, by eliminating a person before he could act in certainways, we defended the civilian population.