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published a correction statement in
September 1998, in which they clarified that they had not intended to suggest that Tsikata was guilty of the crimes. Lance Corporal Amedeka, Michael Senyah, Tekpor Hekli, Johnny Dzandu and Joachim Amartey Quaye were indicted for the murders in 1983. In June 1983,
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The Esi Afran
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reported findings of the
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Cecilia and the other two murdered justices are remembered in an annual judicial service on the anniversary of their deaths, called
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Plains during the hours of a night time curfew. Their charred bodies were discovered in the same location the following day. Following intense pressure on
Rawlings and the PNDC, a Special Investigation Board was formed by the government to investigate the murders. In 1992,
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before the trial could be completed, Amedeka escaped from the Nsawam and Ussher Fort prisons where they were being held and left Ghana. Senya, Hekli, Dzandu and
Amartey Quaye were found guilty of murder, sentenced to death and executed by firing squad.
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