{"id":6921,"date":"2024-05-13T10:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rotadoamanha.com\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T15:13:01","slug":"tarrafal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rotadoamanha.com\/en\/tarrafal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarrafal: Visit The Camp of Slow Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Tarrafal Camp<\/strong>, also known as the Camp of Slow Death, was one of the most notorious political prisons of the Portuguese dictatorship. Located in Cape Verde<\/strong>, at the northern tip of Santiago Island (practically opposite the capital, Praia), emerged as a political prison for anti-fascists and, later, for anti-colonialists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the year it opened, in October 1936, it received its first 152 prisoners from Lisbon, all accused of political activities against the regime. Initially, the camp in Tarrafal was just a 200x150m plot of land surrounded by barbed wire, where prisoners slept in canvas tents. The toilets were holes in the ground with cans inside, the kitchen was a shed, and the dining room tables (whose wood was later used to make coffins) were outdoors. It was only in 1937, with the prisoners' forced labour, that work began on building the moat around the prison and the wall surrounding it, and later the buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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