THE Truth Commission’s amnesty committee has reserved a decision on re-opening the case of the seven policemen who admitted to murdering the ‘Cradock Four’ in 1985. George Bizos, representing their families at a special one-day sitting of the committee, lodged an application for the re-opening of the case on the basis of new evidence in the minutes of a apartheid state security council meeting held in March 1984. Four former United Democratic Front activists were killed on a journey between Cradock and Port Elizabeth in 1985. Police initially claimed they had been killed by vigilantes. But subsequently seven security policemen applied for amnesty on the grounds that they were trying to quell unrest in the Eastern Cape by killing the UDF leaders. Committee chairman, Judge Ronnie Pillay, said a decision will be reached soon.