Former President Jerry John Rawlings has questioned the mystery behind the murder of some 34 women over a seven-year period between 1994 and 2001.

The question which comes in the midst of the ongoing documentary by Multimedia News Channel, Joy News, on the killing of the three High Court judges and a retired army officer in the heat of the revolution seem to spark up some curiosity among the public.

The Former Military ruler expressed disappointment in successive governments for failing to unravel the mystery behind the murder of the 34 women women who were found dead mostly in various parts of the capital including Dansoman and Mataheko.

Addressing some student groups at the Accra Digital Centre over the weekend, Mr Rawlings questioned the commitment of the state to get to the bottom of the murders.

“What happened to women? … In my last four-year term, 34 women were killed in this country in order to create insecurity among women. They needed to deflate that confidence; that power. I’m not making up stories, I don’t, but sometimes I’m asked to provide proof by people who should know better and should back me up, but they try to ridicule me so that I will prove that it can be proven…” Mr Rawlings stated.

He invited the students to join him at a lecture he is scheduled to deliver at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Sciences and Technology (KNUST) later this month, where he said he would throw a “bombshell” on the matter.

In recent times, Joy News and The Multimedia Group have been broadcasting a comprehensive documentary on the killing of three judges and a retired army officer in 1982 when the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) military junta, led by then young Flt. Lt. Rawlings, seized power from the democratically elected government of Dr. Hilla Limann.

The documentary is pushing that the prime suspect, Joachim Amartey Kwei, could not have committed the crime without the backing of the authorities in the PNDC.

According to the documentary, the dreaded Captain Kojo Tsikata agreed that Amartey Kwei ought to have obtained the pass from a higher authority before having unrestricted movement on that fateful night when there was curfew.

The dastardly act remains a dark spot in the nation’s political history after the three High Court Judges namely, Justice Fred Poku Sarkodie, Mrs. Justice Cecilia Koranteng- Addow and Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyapong, as well as a retired army officer, Major Sam Acquah, were callously murdered under strange circumstances at the Bundase Military Range in the Accra Plains.

Their bodies were found on 3rd July, 1982.