Cape Verde - Tarrafal Concentration Camp

The Tarrafal Concentration Camp is rooted in the minds of the Portuguese, Angolans, Guineans and Cape Verdeans as the "camp of slow death" or "death". For over thirty years of operation it has been used to practice the most heinous crimes, leaving irreversible physical and psychological scars in those who have daringly opposed the existing political and social order of the New State (Portuguese dictatorship). This was the mutatis mutandis solution advocated by the Salazar regime as well as other totalitarian regimes that emerged in Europe in the first half of the 20th century.