The Crusading Guide

Towards national reconciliation?

The Crusading Guide reports Dr. Edward Mahama, Presidential candidate of the People?s National Convention (PNC) in the 2000 elections as calling on President Jerry Rawlings to tell Ghanaians the truth about the abduction, murder and torching of the bodies of the three High Court Judges and a retired army officer on June 30, 1982, as a first step towards true national reconciliation.

"I believe that a true reconciliation means that Rawlings must step forward and acknowledge his part in the killing of the judges and the army officer", the paper quotes him as saying.

Dr. Mahama, the paper says, stressed that "it is only the truth and if there is no truth, there is no reconciliation. He should tell us the truth".

The Crusading Guide says Dr. Mahama, who had granted the paper an interview, expressed sympathy with Mr Larry Bimi, Chairman of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE), who is said to be spearheading the call and the creation of a forum for the reconciliation of Ghanaians.

He said Mr Bimi is "hitting his head against the wall", because President Rawlings, the key figure who should be paving the way for reconciliation, has not shown any remorse for the atrocities "he had perpetrated ands is still perpetrating against those who do not agree with his kind of politics".