Editorial News of Thursday, 10 May 2001

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Graves found at last!

After weeks of guess work and speculations, as to the exact burial grounds of the executed former heads of state and army- generals who fell victim to the murderous regime of the AFRC, the Daily Guide can reveal today that their actual burial sites have been discovered.

The Daily Guide can say with authority that markings of the burial sites for 7 of them have been located.

The widow of the fallen generals, recently appealed to President Kufuor to exhume the bodies of the three former Heads of State and five army generals to enable them to give the executed generals a fitting and decent burials.

Following from that, the Minister for Media relations recently announced a directive by the President of the formation of a 5- man Committee to locate the burial places of the generals and also to propose how best to exhume and givethem fitting burials so as to lay that matter to rest once and for all.

Their burial places have remained a mystery to the nation for the past 20 years as no one seemed to know where the eight senior military officers' bodies had been buried.

Contrary to information being peddled in certain quarters that the burial was done by a soldier upon the orders of a captain, investigations have established that the actual burial was done by a gang of prisoners, who initially marked the graves with flowers. Later, the Akuapem South District Council for historical purposes, marked the places with metal poles our sources said. Interestingly, the site of the burial which many believed was within the precincts of the Nsawam Prisons is rather far from the prison itself.