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FREEDOMWAYS   THIRD QUARTER 1966

zambique!). These freedom fighters were immediately thrown out of their quarters and told they must leave the country at once. With no passports and no money few could do so. Those remaining who were unable to escape the dragnet thrown out by the "National Liberation Council" were captured in the thoroughly Nazi fashion, detained only long enough to determine their country of origin and shipped back to the authorities of that country - in most cases to their death. 

One brilliant Nigerian, who fled during the political upheavals in that country, was a professor at the Winneba Institute of Ideology. When the Institute was locked and the foreign teachers ordered to leave the country, this professor was seized, beaten and held in prison for several weeks where he was tortured. Then he was sewed into a sack, which hands and feet chained, dragged across the airport tarmac and tossed into the baggage section of a place. Thus, he was delivered to Nigeria. It is said that the Nigerian authorities were so amazed at such treatment being meted out by Ghanaians and so shocked by the condition of the prisoner that they rushed him to a hospital for medical treatment and that he is now recovering in a home.

Nor were these measures done away with after the "hysteria" of the coup subsided. I pass over the debauches, the assaults on women, the housebreaking and thefts committed by drunken soldiers as perhaps beyond the control of the "authorities"; though one might ask who provided the free beer which was served on the streets all night that first week. But Kenneth Whiting, writing from Accra in the Paris edition of the New York Herald Tribune, April 19, says:

A rough welcome home awaits returning Ghanaians who were even remotely connected with the regime of deposed President Kwame Nkrumah.... Soldiers meet every aircraft landing in Accra and carefully check all the papers of all aboard. This unnerving routine continues today, more than seven weeks after the military-police coup.... Passengers are allowed off the place one at a time to walk between ranks of sweating soldiers. Once through the formalities most foreigners can expect a warm welcome in Ghana. Not so Ghanaians suspected of having any ties with the old regime. (This would naturally include all Ghanaians engaged in normal activities. - S. G. DuB.)

Once-high officials are made to doff their hats, ties and shoes and execute brisk calisthenics while being prodded with bayonets.

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