Remembrance Day 2000 exhibition opens

A Remembrance Day 200 exhibition has opened in Kumasi with a call on Ghanaians not to loose sight of the partnership between Britain and Ghana, especially in the way the two nations stood for freedom, democracy and human rights in the past.

Major-General Henry K. Anyidoho, General Officer Commanding the Northern Command, who made the call said this co-operation is what should urged the two nations on to live and work together now and in future.

These were contained in a speech read on his behalf by Lt-Col Fuseini Iddrisu, Commanding Officer, Fourth Battalion of Infantry, at the opening of a one-week photo exhibition mounted with the co-operation of the Imperial War Museum, London, the British Council and the Ghana Armed Forces.

The exhibition emphasises the contribution of West Africans to all aspects of civic, political, commercial and cultural British life in the past and today. Major-General Anyidoho noted that the photographs bring home the crucial roles played by Ghanaians in their quest to see that civilisation thrives in the world, adding "these were great sacrifices".

He commended the British government and the British Council for having devised the panels and bringing it down to the doorsteps of Ghanaians for people to have an in-depth knowledge of what the predecessors went through.

Mrs Nina Chachu, Director of the British Council office in Kumasi, said the photographs celebrate not war, but share experience of war and show routine and heroism, boredom and laughter.

She paid glowing tribute to the military saying, "we salute the courage and professionalism of our armed forces during the two world wars and we rely on their integrity and expertise to maintain the peace and to hold the ring for the society, protecting human rights, our freedom and our democratic choices".