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He was one of the earliest military leaders to practice internment, also known as concentration camps or civilian detention. He was colonial governor of Cuba from January 1896 to October 1897 and was referred to as "the Butcher" by the US press in the run-up to the Spanish-American War (1898).

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General Valeriano Weyler of the Spanish Army.


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