TIL: British established concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War, forcing over 100,000 women, children, and Black South Africans into overcrowded, unsanitary sites.

Mmmm@lemmy.world · edit-2 6 days ago

TIL: British established concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War, forcing over 100,000 women, children, and Black South Africans into overcrowded, unsanitary sites.

Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org · edit-2 7 days ago

Yeah, the British approach when faced with a Guerilla war was to round up EVERYONE living in the area, depopulating the entire countryside to remove the Boers’ support network.
Then they stuck the people in badly managed and badly supplied camps and gave only half (starvation) rations to the families who still had members outside fighting.

TIL: British established concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War, forcing over 100,000 women, children, and Black South Africans into overcrowded, unsanitary sites.

TIL: British established concentration camps in South Africa during the Second Boer War, forcing over 100,000 women, children, and Black South Africans into overcrowded, unsanitary sites.

Second Boer War concentration camps - Wikipedia