CPLP supports the candidacy of the Campo de Concentração do Tarrafal (Tarrafal Concentration Camp) to become a World Heritage Site

Praia, May 8 (Inforpress) - The member states of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) declared at the ministerial meeting in São Tomé and Príncipe, on Wednesday, May 7, that they support the candidacy of the Tarrafal Concentration Camp as a World Heritage Site.

The support is part of the final declaration signed during the III Extraordinary Meeting of Culture Ministers of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), which took place in São Tomé and Príncipe from 5 to 7 October. 

“Support the new applications of Member States’ sites to become UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in particular the Tarrafal Concentration Camp, as it represents a milestone in the valorisation of the memory of our peoples’ resistance against dictatorship, oppression and the annihilation of freedoms...”, can be read in the final declaration, published by the Ministry of Culture.

According to the source, the Minister of Culture and Creative Industries, Augusto Veiga, called for the support of all member states for this important elevation of a ‘field of painful memory’ that is part of the history of Cabo Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Portugal.

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