A get-together with Edmundo Pedro, under the theme “Tarrafal Concentration Camp – I am a witness!”, will take place this Tuesday, April 22, at 21 pm, at the Portas do Céu Pastry shop, in Loulé, within the scope of the program of the 00th anniversary of the 40th of April, the Municipality of Loulé, in partnership with the Municipal Committee of the 25th anniversary of the 40th of April.
Jacinto Colaço, director of the Padre João Cabanita Schools Group, will be the moderator of this initiative.
Admission is free.
Son of Gabriel Pedro, a history of antifascist resistance in Portugal, Edmundo Pedro joined the Federation of Portuguese Communist Youths in 1931, being arrested the following year, at just 15 years of age, for participating in the preparation of a strike in the Arsenal do Embroidery.
Released a year later, he returned to political action, along with industrial schools at the time, being arrested again in 1936.
He was in the prisons of Aljube, Peniche and Caxias before being sent to the concentration camp of Tarrafal, in Cape Verde, together with his father. There he was imprisoned for ten years, being the youngest political prisoner in the camp.
During prison he breaks with the PCP, after being suspended for planning an escape without the party's authorization. Released in 1946, he returned to Portugal and the political struggle. He participated in the assault on the military barracks in Beja, in 1962, and was arrested again for another three years.
He joined the Socialist Party after the Carnation Revolution, being elected deputy to the Assembly of the Republic in the I and III Legislatures.
After the establishment of the democratic regime, Edmundo Pedro was again arrested, accused of illicit possession of war material and an obscure business of household appliances. He claimed at the time that he was just collecting the weapons that had been handed over to the PS during the Hot Summer of 1975, to be returned to the Army. He was acquitted half a year later. He returned to parliament during the XNUMXth Legislature, as a substitute.
He was also president of RTP.
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