MAMULA ALL INCLUSIVE

Ivo Marković (89), a survivor of the notorious camp ran by Italian fascists during WWII, who was imprisoned as a nine year old child, witnessed how money can transform the place of torture, hunger and sufferings into a place of decadence, a SPA hotel resort, with pools and dance floors for wealthy clients, by the decision of the Montenegro authorities which signed the 49 year-lease contract with Egyptian tycoon Samih Sawiris to build a hotel. An Austro-Hungarian Mamula Fortress built in the mid 19th century was a concentration camp that held more than 2,000 people, where dozens of prisoners were killed, while more than a hundred died of starvation, from March 1942 to September 1943 till the Italian capitulation.