New Era, Thursday, May 3, Page 4: I take the strongest possible exception to this article, written by your reporter Kuvee Kangueehi, which seemingly seeks to put out disinformation and slander – and use my name in order to give the falsifications some credibility. The article in question amounts to the worst kind of hearsay reporting and, in doing so, seems to spread more malicious rumours about an event while in fact getting most of the historical facts wrong. I was referred to in person by your reporter, as was Shapua Kaukungua, but neither of us was ever approached to verify this so-called “information”. While I have all the sympathy in the world for Mr Willy-Mary Amutenya, I question both his motive and timing. Above all, I object being used to slander a brave reporter who did visit the camps at the time at the SWAPO’s leadership’s express invitation. It should be noted that the camps that Mr Amutenya refers to were in fact so far apart as to have been impossible for Mr Amutenya to be witness to both attacks (Cassinga and Vietnam). Cassinga was a refugee transit camp in Huila Province, while Vietnam was a forward operation base, close to the Namibian border in Cunene Province, which – as any primary school pupil will tell you – are several hundred kilometres apart. As for his assertion that this “person” (who is in cowardly fashion not named, but just has aspersions cast over his name) would have been allowed back into Namibia and more incredibly – allowed to enter SADF military bases to be part of the Cassinga survivors’ interrogation is such patent nonsense, I wonder who dreamt up this stuff. What this amounts to is a patent attempt at disinformation (for motives I struggle to understand) by trying to use my and Kaukungua’s names to give credibility to this “report”. Furthermore, Willy-Mary Amutenya should have realised that many comrades’ precious lives have been lost in Cassinga, lives that no one can fantasize about for individual’s or a group’s benefit. I reject all such allegations with the contempt they deserve, and trust that you will give this letter the prominence it deserves, in your otherwise excellent publication. George Iita