 Three of the accused – Brigadier Cornelius van Niekerk, Brigadier John More and Colonel Cornelius van Tonder – were directly involved in coordinating support for Renamo in direct violation of the Nkomati Accord.The atrocities committed by Renamo were described by a United States Department of State report as being worse than those of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.The cost of South African-sponsored wars of destabilisation in Angola and Mozambique has been estimated by the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre in Harare at more than a million lives and between 45 billion USD and 60 billion USD since 1980.