Tarrafal camp
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- For the parish in the island of Santiago, see Tarrafal, Cape Verde.
- For the parish in the island of São Nicolau see, Tarrafal (São Nicolau).
Tarrafal (also known as Campo da Morte Lenta, "Camp of the Slow Death") was a concentration camp in the Cape Verde Islands, then a Portuguese colony, set up by the dictator Salazar before the Second World War (1936) where anti-fascist opponents of this right-wing regime were sent. At least 32 Anarchists, Communists and other opponents of Salazar's regime died in that camp. The camp was closed in 1954 but was re-opened in the 1970s to jail African leaders fighting Portuguese colonialism.
