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However, the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which entire regions had been depopulated. [8] Eventually, authorities built a total of 45 tented camps for Boer internees and 64 additional camps for Black Africans.
This was not the first appearance of internment camps, as the Spanish had used internment in Cuba in the Ten Years' War, and the Americans in the Philippine–American War, [88] but the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time that a whole nation had been systematically targeted, and the first in which whole regions had been ...
Boer women and children in a Second Boer War concentration camp in South Africa (1899–1902). A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or minority ethnic groups, on the grounds of state security, or for exploitation or punishment. [1]
Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, anti-war activist, and pacifist. [1] [2] [3] She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer and African civilians during the Second Boer War.
The term concentration camp was first used by the British military during the Boer War (1899–1902). Facing attack by Boer guerrillas , British forces rounded up the Boer women and children as well as black people living on Boer land, and sent them to 34 tented camps scattered around South Africa.
Pages in category "Second Boer War concentration camps" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The British established a concentration camp at Kimberley to hold interned Boer women and children, as well as black refugees. [69] [70] A memorial outside the Newton Dutch Reformed Church commemorates those that died in the camp. [71] The Honoured Dead Memorial in Kimberley
The Port Elizabeth Concentration Camp was a British run concentration camp in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, at that time part of the Cape Colony, used as part of the Boer War. It was active from December 1900 to around November 1902. Originally sited on Port Elizabeth racecourse, it was moved to higher ground, two miles north-west of the town.