Hon Speaker, I am sure the hon member knows that all citizens are not the same. They are different. Those who get arrested and go to prison after conviction are also not the same. Some indeed stop criminal life and others don't. The unfortunate thing is that they do not have anything written on their foreheads and therefore you cannot see who is still a criminal.
Even those who come out when their term ends - some don't commit crime and others do. We have a constitutional system. The President did not do anything out of the framework of the law and the Constitution.
Special remission, as I've indicated, is done and it is a normal thing done universally. We have those who were released and, of course, did wrong things, and we accept that what they have done is wrong. We sympathise with the families who were the victims of this. It's a matter that we can deal with specifically from that point of view. But I don't think, if you take a decision with regard to the system that screens people and recommends that these are the people who can come out because in terms of our observation we think these ones indeed deserve to benefit from this, that you can say the system would be perfect. Once they are out and they commit crimes they have to be rearrested. Therefore, I don't appreciate your point when you say that I must apologise for giving special remission. Special remission will be given because it is within the framework of the Constitution.
To simplify it for you, it's as if you have a family. In a family, not every child behaves perfectly. That is not the case, and it is not that you want your child to become something else. I am saying here that we are dealing with the system. You cannot have a perfect situation, particularly if you are dealing with inmates or former inmates.
They are observed by people in prison. These people make recommendations about who are the prisoners they believe have now repented. If they go out and commit crime, they are doing something wrong and we sympathise with the families. We certainly sympathise with the families where this happened.
I don't know what you are looking for, because I am saying your point is wrong because you're saying that I must apologise for giving special remission. Why? Because this is within the Constitution. You are demanding an apology on a wrong point. That is your problem. I can explain and say here without any hesitation that I sympathise with the victims who indeed were the victims of the kind of people who were taken out, thinking that they had already repented. Some of the people who actually committed crimes were at the point of finishing their sentences.
I am saying that from government's point of view we sympathise with the victims. We have rearrested the offenders and they are in prison. That is why we've got the number which we have. That's what we can say. Thank you, hon Speaker. [Applause.]