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 The Batepa Massacre

1953 was the year,

February 3rd, month and day,

The Batepa massacre here

On the island of Sao Tome.

The Portuguese government had

Enslaved native people to toil

On plantations, conditions bad,

Tending cocoa beans in the soil.

And when the natives did rebel,

The government chose force for sure,

That helpless natives would face hell,

Hundred killed in the massacre.

By government authority,

Bodies were dumped into the sea.