Rawlings On Relevance Of June Four

Accra, -- President Jerry John Rawlings went down memory lane to the June Four era yesterday and admitted that some excesses were committed but said the ideals of that period should be kept alive. He said steps have been taken to correct some of the excesses where possible. "Forgetting is far more dangerous than remembering.'' President Rawlings was addressing troops who converged at the El Wak Stadium after a route march through some of the main streets of Accra to mark the 18th anniversary of the June Four uprising. Before the march to the stadium, the troops had participated in a wreath laying ceremony at the Revolution Square to remember those who died on that day. He said ''it is when we forget, when we attempt to obliterate the memory of difficult and critical times, that we repeat the same errors and fall into the same traps which bring about upheavals''. "We remember, not rpt not because we want to turn the clock back,

but to understand where we have come from so that in the present and the future, we can avoid the mistakes of the past'', the President said.