AMINA DESAI
Well, I think during the time that they were interrogating me, they asked me why I had sent my son to a military college. I told them that because he had been in trouble here with the police and he had actually been locked up for a weekend because as a child he had sprayed something on the school walls at the time when they wanted to close down our school. They had picked him up and taken him - and we had then sent our son to Lawrence College in Raipindi, which had been originally a college where the English officers sent their children. This was the college that accepted him.  But for - because he was only a Std 9 pupil when he left for India.  After that of course, he found his way to Sweden and studied there.  But now they wanted to know why did I sent him. So I told them it was just
KRUGERSDORP HEARING TRC/GAUTENG
10 MRS A DESAI
incidental that they happened to have some training, it was just part of the syllabus and the curriculum of the old - the school where the officers used to send their children, the British officers sent their children. It was part of the curriculum of the school.