The Concentration Camps

Holding Centre. The uprising was followed by mass torture inflicted by units of the British army who entered the barracks and mercilessly beat up the prisoners and kept them awake by firing shots and throwing stones. Uprisings of this sort resulted in the loss of privileges. Prisoners were no longer allowed to send or receive letters, which, in any case were always censored, and weekly visits were banned. During the periods of punishment, attempts at destroying human dig- nity were cruder and harsher than usual and included methods such as the stripping naked of prisoners in public, isolation in disciplinary cells and survival on bread and water. Throughout the four-year EOKA liberation strug- gle, the Concentration Camps were fields of constant and unequal moral resistance and Political Prisoners in Sector A of Kokkinotrimithia Concentration Camp