Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo)

Fort Zeelandia (English: Fort Zeelandia) is a fortress that was built around a trading frontier post by English colonists in the early 17th century in what which is now Suriname (northern South America).

When the Dutch took it over, they gave it its present name.

During the tenure of Dési Bouterse in the 1980s, it was the site of the "December Murders" of 1982 and was used to imprison and torture political prisoners.