Special Report Transcript Episode 75, Section 2, Time 09:00

My personal feeling was almost that is 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 policeman to be killed that morning. So, I might have said to my juniors, look we are actually going to shoot them dead if they should raise their weapons and aim it at us, because I didn’t want to have a sort of a Trojan horse situation to the detriment of innocent people. We would have shot them dead. // And this group consisted of about 20 policemen, people with counter insurgency training. // That’s correct. And I approached people who had fought in the Rhodesian bush war and perhaps also in Namibia and who had been in the task force; I didn’t go there with a group of administrative staff. I used people who had experience, of thinking on their feet and people who would know how to deal with the situation on the ground.

Notes: Bellingan; Kobus Booyens (Bellingan’s lawyer); Bellingan

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