Surinam, Dutch Guinea - Statue of the Dutch former queen Wilhelmina in front of Fort Zeelandia, a fortress in Paramaribo. In 1640 the French built a w

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Surinam, Dutch Guinea - Statue of the Dutch former queen Wilhelmina in front of Fort Zeelandia, a fortress in Paramaribo. In 1640 the French built a wooden fort on the same spot which is now Fort Zeelandia. During the British colonial days the fort was reinforced and became Fort Willoughby. It was taken in 1667 by Crijnssen to become from that day Fort Zeelandia. After the Surinamese independence in 1975, during the military government of Dési Bouterse in the 1980s, Fort Zeelandia was the location of the "December murders" of 1982 and was used to hold and torture political prisoners.

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Photo credit: © Ron Giling / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: architecture, colonial, dutch, fort, guinea, surinam, suriname, zeelandia