The monument at what is known as Execution Rock.
Buraco dos Assassinatos, a 5m-high blowhole on a bluff south of Tofo that's known in English as "Execution Rock". Covered on three sides by sharp barnacles and dropping onto small boulders at low tide, the shaft has been the site of untold numbers of assassinations in the past 40 years. First, the Portuguese used it to execute dissidents at the start of the rebellion, then Frelimo did the same to Renamo soldiers during the civil war. It's a gruesome death: you drop down alive, breaking an arm or a leg during the fall, your skin tearing on the narrow walls. When the tide comes in, your body is washed out for the sharks.
After seeing it on a day like today, serious rough seas and four meter swells, you had extra appreciation for anyone that had to die like this. You will not stand a change against being pummelled against the rocks at such speed.
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