"Once they were in the colony there was almost total silence about their lives."

"When I came to study in Portugal, Guilherme’s family welcomed me, and took me to visit the families of the other poli…"

"All this leaves its mark on a 20-year-old woman. When people started talking about our liberation, I saw reasons to j…"

"I was not under suspicion because I was studying on a loan given by the Portuguese Youth Organisation, a movement led…"

"We were told that in two days we would be leaving and that we could only take 5kg."

"We had just set up home. We ended up closing the door, taking only the clothes that were necessary."

"It was only a small canoe. We could only go two by two, but in our group there were babies who were with their parents."

"I worried the secret police would use our daughter to pressure us and said this to my husband. He said when a person …"

"Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so…"

"I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his sp…"