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“So I kept quiet, then went away and did what I had to do.”
Source: Jerry John Rawlings, interview with Kwaku Sakyi-Addo for "Sunday Night", Asaase Radio (Accra), published 12 July 2020
Context Describing how a senior general demanded that General Akwasi Afrifa's name be added to the 1979 execution list — a killing Rawlings in the same interview called "absolutely unnecessary" — after which he signed the death warrants anyway.
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