Domingos Ramos

Picture by Domingos Ramos in the Liberation Museum in Bissau

Grave for Domingos Ramos at the monument to the heroines and heroes in Bissau

Domingos Gomes Ramos (* 1935 in Bissau , Portuguese Guinea ; † November 10, 1966 in Madina do Boé , Portuguese Guinea ) was a Guinea-Bissau resistance fighter of the PAIGC .

Life

Domingos Gomes Ramos was born in Bissau in 1935 in what was then the Portuguese colony of Guinea. After he worked briefly as an assistant in the city hospital, he was drafted into the Portuguese colonial army. In 1957 he secretly joined the PAIGC resistance and independence movement. After the massacre of numerous dock workers in the docks of Pidjiguiti by colonial soldiers on August 3, 1959 (known as the Pidjiguiti massacre ), he deserted and devoted himself entirely to the Guinean resistance.

In 1961 the PAIGC sent Ramos to the area around Xitole to mobilize the population against the Portuguese colonial power. In Satacuta he succeeded in convincing the population not to pay taxes to the colonial power, which the Portuguese colonial army responded with violence. Ramos then fled to Guinea-Conakry, where the PAIGC had its headquarters in Conakry. First he completed military training in Ghana, then in 1964 he traveled with some other PAIGC fighters - including Chico Mendes , João Bernardo Vieira , Osvaldo Vieira - to the military academy in Nanjing to complete extensive military training there. After his return, the PAIGC appointed him commander of the Eastern Front.

Domingos Ramos led the first organized partisan unit of the Guinea-Bissau resistance movement in December 1964. With 600 soldiers, the unit attacked the first Portuguese targets. Ramos was killed in an attack on the Portuguese camp in Madina do Boé on November 10, 1966.

Domingos Ramos is one of the heroines and heroes named and glorified by the PAIGC. In the headquarters of the Guinea-Bissau Army ( Fort Amura ) in the capital Bissau there is a monument to Guinea-Bissau heroines and heroes, and Domingos Ramos is also remembered there by name. In addition, streets and schools in both Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde are named after him, and his likeness was on the Guinean 50 peso banknote and on a Cape Verde escudo coin .

Web links

Commons : Domingos Ramos - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b According to the grave plaque (see photo)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ramos, Domingos (? –1966) . In: Peter Karibe Mendy, Richard A. Lobban, Jr. (Eds.): Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6 , pp. 353 f .

personal data
SURNAME	Ramos, Domingos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ramos, Domingos Gomes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Guinea-Bissau resistance fighter of the PAIGC
DATE OF BIRTH	1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bissau , Portuguese Guinea
DATE OF DEATH	November 10, 1966
Place of death	Madina do Boé , Portuguese Guinea

[:1-1] According to the grave plaque (see photo)

[:0-2] Ramos, Domingos (? –1966) . In: Peter Karibe Mendy, Richard A. Lobban, Jr. (Eds.): Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau . 4th edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2013, ISBN 978-0-8108-8027-6 , pp. 353 f .