Heritage campaigners in Montenegro have accused developers of turning an historic island fortress, where prisoners were once starved and tortured, into a “haven for the rich” as its conversion into a five-star resort gets underway.
The island of Lastavica, on which the 19th century Mamula fortress is built, occupies an idyllic position off the coast of the tiny Balkan country, which is undergoing a tourism boom as investors move in on its beaches and bays.
But the island has a dark, haunted past – during the Second World War it was used by the occupying Italians as a place to incarcerate around 2,000 political prisoners.
Many were tortured and an estimated 130 were killed or starved to death…
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