Cuba List of concentration and internment camps

after marshal campos had failed pacify cuban rebellion, conservative government of antonio cánovas del castillo sent out weyler. selection met approval of spaniards, thought him proper man crush rebellion. while serving spanish general, called butcher weyler because hundreds of thousands of people died in concentration camps.

he made governor of cuba full powers suppress insurgency (rebellion widespread in cuba) , restore island political order , sugar production greater profitability. initially, weyler frustrated same factors had made victory difficult generals of traditional standing armies fighting against insurgency. while spanish troops marched in regulation , required substantial supplies, opponents practiced hit-and-run tactics , lived off land, blending in non-combatant population. came same conclusions predecessors well—that win cuba spain, have separate rebels civilians putting latter in safe havens, protected loyal spanish troops. end of 1897, general weyler had relocated more 300,000 such reconcentration camps. weyler learned tactic american civil war campaign of general sherman while assigned post of military attaché in spanish embassy in washington d.c.. however, many mistakenly believe him to origin of such tactics after later used british in second boer war , later evolved designation describe concentration camps of 20th century regimes of hitler , stalin. although successful moving vast numbers of people, failed provide them adequately. consequently, these areas became cesspools of hunger , disease, many hundreds of thousands died.

weyler s reconcentration policy had important effect. although made weyler s military objectives easier accomplish, had devastating political consequences. although spanish conservative government supported weyler s tactics wholeheartedly, liberals denounced them vigorously toll on cuban civilian population. in propaganda war waged in united states, cuban émigrés made of weyler s inhumanity countrymen , won sympathy of broad groups of u.s. population cause. nicknamed butcher weyler journalists william randolph hearst.

weyler s strategy backfired militarily due rebellion in philippines required redeployment 1897 of troops in cuba. when prime minister antonio cánovas del castillo assassinated in june, weyler lost principal supporter in spain. resigned post in late 1897 , returned europe. replaced in cuba more conciliatory ramón blanco y erenas.

military units aid production forced labor concentration camps established fidel castro s communist government, november 1965 july 1968.

they way eliminate alleged bourgeois , counter-revolutionary values in cuban population. first, people thrown overcrowded cells @ police stations , later taken secret police facilities, movie houses, stadiums, warehouses, , similar locations. photographed, fingerprinted , forced sign confessions declaring scum of society in exchange temporary release until summoned concentration camps. refused sign confessions physically , psychologically tortured.

beginning in november 1965, people classified scum of society started arrive in concentration camps train, bus, truck , other police , military vehicles.

social deviants such homosexuals, vagrants, jehovah s witnesses , other religious missionaries imprisoned in these concentration camps, reeducated .