Treatment for Traitors
Director Ike Bertels
Countries Netherlands
Duration 53 min
Synopsis
1982. The socialistic government of Mozambique – at that time a young independent country in southern Africa - organized a meeting of great political importance. President Samora Machel and his governments’ leaders held a session for a week with thousands of collaborators: people who betrayed their compatriots, sometimes even tortured them by order of Portugal at the time of its colonial domination of Mozambique. They are known as “the compromised”. They voluntarily joined the ANP fascist party or became agents of the secret police PIDE, or even soldiers in the colonial army.
1982. The socialistic government of Mozambique – at that time a young independent country in southern Africa - organized a meeting of great political importance. President Samora Machel and his governments’ leaders held a session for a week with thousands of collaborators: people who betrayed their compatriots, sometimes even tortured them by order of Portugal at the time of its colonial domination of Mozambique. They are known as “the compromised”. They voluntarily joined the ANP fascist party or became agents of the secret police PIDE, or even soldiers in the colonial army.