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Originally posted by moe.ron
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Interestingly enough, the modern idea of concentration camp was first used during the Anglo-Boer war. The Brits, in their civilized notion, rounded up all the women and childrens of the Boers and put them into camps. Giving them little to no food and forcing them to do hardship labours. Thousand died and this experience was one of the major reasons for the rise of the Nationalist attitude by the Boer, which gave rise to apartheid in the 50s.
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Yep the "concentration camp" was literally designed to concentrate the civilian or non-combatant population into controlled areas that the Biritsh could easily cordon off... all of this design to ulitmately deny aid and comfort to the Boer Kommandos operating in the veldte. The British were then able to effectively deny mobility and support to the guerrila forces, robbing the guerrilas of their primary advantage.
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