Fort Dimanche's Shameful Past

Fort Dimanche began as a prison when the French occupied the island before Haitian independence in 1804. Once the U.S. began occupying the island from 1915 to 1934, its military turned Fort Dimanche into a military compound.

During the 1950s Duvalier dictatorship, he used death squads and the prison became a detention center, where dissidents were jailed, tormented, and killed. Any political opponents caught trying to leave the country ended up at Fort Dimanche.

Fort Dimanche today has been designated a monument.

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