RvBMan

But didn't you read Breaker Morant? Why he was the hero! It was those dastardly Boers that killed an Australian icon!

God damn there's just no end to the death caused by jews.

goatmensch

This war against the Boers was funded by jewish bankers on the British side. That's how they managed to have whites kill each other like this.

ShadowWatcher

I wouldn't even starve Hillary Clinton like that. It's sad that humans can do this!

lion4liberty

The British are all about honor until some one starts kicking their ass then its off to kill women and children.

clamhurt_legbeard

The British literally invented the concentration camp specifically to imprison Boers.

SealofApproval

Am sure it had been done before its just there were were no reporters and no records.

Sour

All news of the war being relayed back to Europe was controlled by the British from Cape Town. If it wasn't for Emily Hobhouse we would likely have never heard about this. "In October 1899 when the second Boer war broke out Emily Hobhouse was invited by a Liberal MP, Leonard Courtney, President of the South African Conciliation Committee, to become secretary of its women’s branch. She organised a number of protests against the war. As anger and concern grew at reports of the treatment of the Boers by the British, she set up the South African Women and Children Distress Fund to raise funds for their relief. In December 1900 she traveled to South Africa to distribute the funds, and to investigate conditions for herself. Lord Kitchener had instituted a systematic ‘scorched earth’ policy which involved destroying livestock and crops, burning farms and homesteads, poisoning wells and putting salt on fields; Boer women and children were moved into concentration camps. She had military permission to visit some of the camps and saw the hunger and disease arising from the overcrowding and lack of food and medical facilities. There is a description of her courage when visiting one of the camps, ‘a puff adder slithered into the tent. As everyone else fled, Hobhouse, no more intimidated by a poisonous snake than by a viceroy, tried to kill it with her parasol.’ She saw corpses being carried to mass graves: ‘My heart wept within me when I saw the misery.’ She demanded milk, clothing, medicines, soap from the startled British officers: ‘None of the camp commandants were quite sure who this well-dressed, well-connected woman was, but they knew she was angry and they were not about to say no to her.’

It is estimated that 27,927 Boers died in the camps, mostly children under 16 - from starvation, disease and exposure, though this may be an underestimate. She worked with local women to help improve the situation, and returned to England in May 1901, her report to the South Africa Distress Fund being published in June."