Ghana's former leader Jerry Rawlings dies aged 73
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- Tributes pour in for Ghana's former president Jerry Rawlings. He led two military coups before becoming the country's democratically elected president. Also, Amnesty International confirms what it calls the massacre of likely hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The report came as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced major advances in western Tigray. And from 50,000 people a day to just 500, activity at what was once one of Africa's busiest borders has been reduced to a trickle as Covid-19 restrictions hit a vital trade artery between DR Congo and Goma.
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rest in peace papa and I love the way they are identifying him as a Leader and not a politician,😘😘😘
May his soul rest in peace
Rest on African Giant the man who made Ghana what it’s today
Can I ask you this,what did he do for Ghana tell me one good thing he did, and please if you were not born or old enough in 1975 please don't open your mouth to say anything.this man and his gang single handedly wrecked Ghana's economy and industrial infrastructure, and completely destroyed millions of hard working Ghanaians life and seized their money, and his excuse is because he didn't have any money to feed himself, he stole Ghana's gold to stash in Switzerland is that how you run a country, Ghana government doesn't have a single working factory up till now,all the factories there now belongs to foreigners,Ghana is the fifth country to have independence in Africa,but where it is now as poor as ever,because this man put it 40 years backward.he didn't even have a clue how to run the country when he took power in Ghana and you are talking about he made the country what it is today,like what poor or wealthy.if you are in Ghana or outside go there and see ghost factories litter everywhere.
He was a super man.
@@powers5234 if you don't know how a super man looks like you better keep quiet,if you were not born or mature enough in 1975 don't say anything,because you don't have a clue who he was,super man in western world saves life,protect economy,protect his country,super man don't killed people,super man don't destroy economy of his country,super man don't steal his country's wealth to hide it in Switzerland,super man soldiers would not go the market and beat market women and men and robbed them of their money and possessions,super man would not took power and destroy the life of millions of Ghanaians and make them suffer, because he didn't have money to feed himself, super man indeed.do you really know who he was I want to know, tell me for calling him super man.
Ah is Rawlings White or black
@@JOELINCOLN66 his father is white Scottish and mother Ghanaian.
Rest In Power, Warrior! may his soul find favor with the Ancestors! ❤️💚🖤
I remember when I was a student in secondary school, we went out on a march to support the revolution JJ and his team started. May you rest in peace brother.
Did you also remembered the millions of Ghanaians that suffered in the hands of this man and his gang atrocities after atrocities across Ghana, destroy our nation completely did you.
@@mohammedabdullahiattah6803 Even the Us you praise today was built on blood.
@@visible4426 praise U.S. for what,, beside you can't compared the two ,and you think just because U.S. was built on blood, doers that justify this man to brutally killed and destroy Ghana for his own selfishness,U.S.blood shed has turn it into the wealthiest nation in the world,what about the blood shed in Ghana turn the country to,should I tell you, one of the poorest countries in the world., Ghana was the fifth nation in Africa to have independence,but look at what it is today.( You have a sir name like my mother's father Dankwa.)
@@mohammedabdullahiattah6803 What millions suffered? The faming of 1982 was surely not a result of a man who took power on January 1st of that year, so what million suffered under his regime, as if he is to blame.
hate the man if you want. It's your right to be irrational, but there are no facts to support it.
What? The murder of the judges. What person responsible for murdering such people would throw the case to an independent commission that would indict one of his own, and he would have his government carry out the sentence?
The june 4th era? Do you know what a revolution is? Because clearly most critics don't so do not understand what it is like to lead one. Blame the corruption in Ghana that led to the military wide revolt, not the fireman who put out the fire in 3 months.
We love you Rawlings and we will always remember and cherish you 😭😭rest in perfect peace papa J😭😭😭
We will all die. one day so dont hung your. Opponent
the corrupt need to be punished, you cant just steal and expect to be treated as innocent.
This make nice argument doesnt work in a country where leaders even today do the most evil, corrupt and greedy things, knowing well the ghanaian is too meek to oppose their nonsense.
It's a pity you have not learnt the lesson for what Rawlings represented. Without justice, we have no peace. Just a dying of the soul, suffering the abuse of our leaders.
That he is dead, and some like you don't see what he represented means our future truly is bleak.
R.i.p. dear Mister rawlings
RIP J R had a vision. Made lives of the people of Ghana &Africa better .
He was the best president but his members of parlament didnot help him to achieve his dreams of tranforming Ghana to his dreams.
Rest in peace Papa J
He was a Great African Leader, Honor Him.
Blessings To All Worthy Of Being Blessed
Really like what,and what greatness is that can you tell me some please,I want to know,and do you really know him,please were you born when he took power in Ghana,
@@mohammedabdullahiattah6803 We've answered this saa. Read a book if you do not know. Do you read about Ghana's political history from diverse sources? Or just the UP tradition? Get out of your echo chamber and read widely, talk to veterans of that era like we have, or stay silent and admit you do not know, save for the few around you who for whatever reasons hold the same view as you.
Rest well in e bosom of the Lord🙏🏾
Hmm 😞
Long live socialists
Rest in paradise great hero and watch over us from above ⛅️🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
J.J. Rawlings was a good leader " May his soul Rest in Perfect Peace .
man behind two Coup d'état! RIP.
He delivered Ghana to the promised land. The most stable democracy in Africa and the most peaceful country in Africa.
@Nana Adutwum His first 'coup' was a nation-wide armed force revolt. He was in cells when it occured. He was broken out and simply given the power. He immediately announced a handover in 3months, to spend time bringing down the temperature.
Prior to that he had attempted a revolt against the military regime, but faced with killing soldiers to win, or surrendering, he chose to surrender.
The 1981/82 coup was a coup however.
@Nana Adutwum AFRC. It was factions in PNDC. AFRC was fairly cohesive. The 'factions' were basically the government, the interest groups, like the Students/ working class Ghanaian society, and the armed forces itself. While the students and working class called for the harsh justice, the armed force being armed and having been the ones to take power in the first place, meant that the AFRC had to find a balance. If they decided to use stale leadership models of 'sit down, and shut up. Leaders know best', they would have been summarily shot and the wider public would have been in support of it.
Rawlings had to use deft to balance the justice being asked for with temperance.
For instance, Makola number 1's destruction has been told as a travesty. In reality, Makola simply moved further into Accra. If you look at where Makola number 1 is today, it is a tiny spot compared to Makola NOW. But Rawlings had the engineers go in at night (when it was empty) to destroy the stalls etc, to exorcise the rage that the soldiers were already showing, with soldiers having grabbed market women, stripped them and lashed them between their legs. Once Makola number 1 was destroyed, this abuse ended.
Similarly,
Students called for the execution of some lecturers in KNUST for exchanging sex for grades with the female students. When Rawlings got there, the students were in no mood to stand down, and even went as far as saying if the AFRC wouldnt do it, the students would if the AFRC gave them guns.
One had to strike between natural justice, and temperance. So Rawlings flew away, came back the next day as promised, but at high noon.
In Rawlings own words, 'daylight comes with its complexes'. Meaning no student was crazy enough to come out where all his mates would see him and remember him as leading the lynching. So that energy dissipated, and the AFRC could not be blamed for the student's backing down or seen as being weak.
This was a revolution. A revolution. A lot of academic critics today have no concept of what it is like to govern a revolution. If they were in charge, they'd have been summarily executed and some crazy corporal or private would have taken over, and we'd have had even greater bloodshed.
The decision to execute 8 Generals most responsible for the state of the nation was a balancing act to avoid executing 100s in revolutioary fashion.
Saying no actual revolution occured, that the AFRC had their own reasons for executing the Generals is to ignore what being a leader of a revolution truly is all about.
It means we have not learned from history, and is it any wonder we are subjected to increasingly weak and corrupt governance, and seem to be satisfied with less and less, like some abused mistress, in a toxic relationship?
Waiting??
EYE ON AFRICA FOR WHAT'S?
Correction: Rawlings, not Rowlings.
This man and his gang single handedly destroy Ghana's economy, destroy the life of millions of Ghanaians all because they were wealthy,killed all the top judges in Ghana including a young woman who has just given birth, and put Ghana backward for 30 years,and at the end did not practice what he came to preach, stole Ghana"s wealth to hide it somewhere,there is nothing good about this man to be mourn,what Ghanaians went through in the hands of this man is beyond imagination.
But what if he hadn't intervened and the status quo was left to continue, would things have turned out better?
@@juliusmaingi7575 Absolutely, things were even better then,he took over and make it even worst,he came with vengeance and bad intentions,he completely ruined all the manufacturing sector it is very sad, since then Ghana has stood the same at it is since independence even worst,once a very wealthy country.and he didn't even practice what he came to preach..
Nonsense,yes a few bruises here and there but it was for a good cause. I'd do the same if I got the chance,Lord knows that's the remedy for our corrupt leaders on this continent
You are a liar!! A total liar! Common bar soap to wash was not available. People were starving! What are you talking about? How old are you and did u live in those times ? Tcheew
@@heartsandpearls239 what bar soap are you talking about my friend please keep quiet if you don't know anything, I was 16 in secondary school,listen tell me were you born at that time and how old were you ,bar soap,very funny there was GNTC,, UTC and many more,you are talking about bar soap when soldiers were brutally robbing market women and men of their money and possessions,,I know him better than you, and you had the audacity to call me lair.
How did former 🇬🇭 Ghanaian president die out of the hospital 🏥?
Huge Loss!!!😭😭😭😭