Boer War concentration Camps
Bethulie's British Concentration Camp and Emily Hobhouse
Emily Hobhouse's, a British welfare campaigner, account of the terrible suffering at the British Concentration Camp at Bethulie in the Free State during the Anglo Boer War. Emily Hobhouse also set up a spinning and weaving school to help the Boer woman
Women's Monument to (25,000!) Anglo-Boer War Concentration Camp Victims (Bloemfontein, South Africa)
(Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa)
The first concentration camps were in ~1900 and almost exclusively White-on-White. Did you know that? Neither did I.
In Bloemfontein South Africa, just 20-30 years after their defeat/surrender in the Anglo-Boer War, the (mostly Dutch-derived, the first boat-full of them having arrived in 1652, ~250 years prior!) Afrikaner Boer (meaning farmer) people still living there set up this Women's Monument to remember the (mostly) women and kids who died of starvation, thirst and/or sickness in British-run concentration camps. (I s$%t you not!)
See the Boer fighters were organized into essentially-guerrilla commando militias. And they kept kicking the butts of the British who out-numbered and out-resourced them 10-to-1.
But while they were away out butt-kicking someplace, the wives were back on the farms taking care of things. So the British said screw this, and just burned/dynamited the farms, killed the livestock, and took the wives and kids hostage in these concentration camps.
This unplugged the Boer fighters provisions-wise, but that wasn't really the whole plan.
Taking the wives and kids hostage in this way, and passive-aggressively allowing them to die-off in bureaucratic fashion (Oh dang, we ran out of food for the prisoners again. --sound familiar?) not just humiliated the men emotionally and spiritually (worse than unbelievers, right?), but of course gave them dang good reasons to give up and surrender, and quickly, which they did.
You might just have to agree that genocide worked. But try not to think about it.
No wait. I mean: YES PLEASE DO try to think about it!
(And what if they'd thought of this when fighting General Washington and his people in the Revolutionary War, hmm?)
The British Concentration Camps | 1MinuteDoc
We are all familiar with horrific images of the nazi concentration Camps of the second world war.
However the nazi's were not the first to use these horrific camps.
The name concentration camp originated from 'reconcentrados' set up by the Spanish military in Cuba during the Ten Years' War from 1868 to 1878.
Two decades later the British became responsible for a wider use of the term.
During the Second Boer War, from 1899 to 1902, the British empirial army attacked the white farmers
of the South African Republic and Orange Freestate to gain control over the mining area's.
After significant losses the British took drastic meassurements by interning the families of the boer fighters and their black african allies.
More than 26,000 boer women and children died in the British concentration Camps of hunger and disease. The captured boer men where seperated from their families and send over seas.
The number of black African victims has not been recorded, but is expected to be over 20.000.
40 years later the Nazi's would use concentration camps for imprisoning millions of Jews, Gypsies and others persecuted.
The Boer War - Concentration Camps
Part one
Bloemfontein Boer Museum, Boer camp inside, external features Cemetery
In this clip we look at the Women's Memorial and the displays in the grounds of the War Museum of the Boer Republics followed by a walk around the Bloemfontein cemetery. The inscriptions are printed in We Wander the Battlefields and other statues are included. Emily Hobhouse, General C de Wiet, Rev. Kestell, and President Steyn are buried at the foot of the Vrouemonument (the Women's Memorial).
Concentration Camps in Boer War
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Rees-Mogg's Comments On Boer War Concentration Camps
Appearing on BBC's Question Time on the 14th February 2019, Jacob Rees-Mogg made some interesting comments about British concentration camps during the second Boer War, between 1899-1902.
Emily Hobhouse Exposes the Plight of Boer Women and Children in British Concentration Camps
British welfare campaigner, Emily Hobhouse, appalled at the plight of Boer women and children in British Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War in 1900-1902, gives voice to their suffering in a series of reports bringing to the attention of the British public the high mortality rate in which an average of 50 children a day were dying a result of overcrowding, unhygienic conditions, neglect and lack of resources.
The Hunt for Anglo Boer War Relics - 8 March 2014
This is the third visit to this incredibly difficult-to-detect site. It has very shallow soil with a solid rock bank, about 4 to 10 inches below the surface. It is also extremely mineralised, so getting to know the signals is hard work.
I will be focussing on this site for the next few hunts.
Location detail:
The outskirts of town, near a museum. Used to be a fort and housed loads and loads of soldiers for about 6 weeks during 1900. I went there to spot-check the area and started finding items relating to the Anglo Boer War of 1899.
English Concentration Camps in South Africa
My First Project 2
Lizzie van Zyl
Lizzie Van Zyl (1894 – 9 May 1901) was a child inmate of Bloemfontein concentration camp who died from typhoid fever during the Second Boer War.
The British incarcerated her in a concentration camp following the refusal of her father, a Boer combatant, to surrender. Activist Emily Hobhouse used her death as an example of the hardships the Boer women and children faced in the British concentration camps during the war. She describes Lizzie as a frail, weak little child in desperate need of good care, who was placed on the lowest rations and, after a month, was moved to the new hospital about 50 kilometres (31 miles) away from the concentration camp, suffering from starvation.
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Black White and Khaki Camps promo 2
Until fairly recently, the infamous concentration camps set up by the British during the 2nd Anglo Boer War were often cited as responsible for the deaths of over 29,000 Boer women and children.
Records of so-called black concentration camps have since
added to these numbers, with at least 24,000 black people dying in camps. There were likely more, as record keeping was poor.
This documentary series recognizes and remembers those who
gave their lives in the camps, both black and white, and records for posterity, their passing.
Women and children in Boer concentration camps
This video was created for a school project. Students were assigned a task to portray heritage with the use of different multimedia applications. The videos and images that were to be presented could not be sourced from the internet but had to be shot by hand. I chose to do my project on the Women and children in Boer concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902, to express the plight of these people and to shine a light on a part of South African history that is often forgotten.
British Concentration Camps
It is little realised by many today that British imperialism has every bit as much horror attached to its long and bloody rule as German imperialism under the Nazis - and more, for they have been in the business of exploiting labour and colonising other nations, and suppressing their inevitable resistance struggles, for centuries.
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Concentration camps were not only invented by the British, for use in the suppression of nations and populations in widespread rebellion (Starting with the Boer War) - aka liberation struggles - but were exported all over the world.
We note that in addition to their terrifying use in Kenya, South Africa, Malaya, and Ireland, that the British went to suppress the Bolshevik revolution (among 14 other imperialist / capitalist nations) and used concentration camps to imprison Red army troops and communist workers.
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atrocities of the Anglo-Boer war
The atrocities of the concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer war
This was a dark time of our history in south Africa I do hope that this is not forgot but forgiven and that we can remember the good the British have done and how successful the union of south Africa was and what we should be doing so that it may be again
The British Concentration Camps
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boervolkradio.co.za - Regular song by Boer singers, Frans & Cathy Maritz, to commemorate the 24 000 Boer children( 50% of the Boer Child Population Killed ) and 3 000 Boer women who were murdered by the British during the Anglo Boer War. (1899 - 1902) when England laid her hands on the mineral riches of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal), under the false pretence of protecting the rights of the foreigners and Cape-Dutch(Afrikaners) who swarmed to the Transvaal gold fields.
On the battlefield England failed to get the better of the Boers, and decided to stoop to a full-scale war against the Boer women and children.
The British then employed a holocaust to force the burghers to surrender.
This holocaust once more enjoyed close scrutiny during the visit of the Queen of England(who side-stepped the issue) to South Africa, when organisations promoting the independence(as was agreed in article 7 of the Vereeniging peace treaty between British & Boer on 31 May 1902 ) of the Boer Republics, presented her with a message, demanding that England redress the wrongs committed against the Boervolk.
During this war the British suffered their most devastating war ever in their history and were about to loose this war, which would have made them the laughing stock of the world, and then they turned to one of the first genocide programs in modern history, they killed off 50% of the Boer's Children.
The only solution for a safe and secure Southern Africa in the future will be the re-instatement of the Boer republics, and the British especially need to heed these words.
How Emily Hobhouse Helped the Boer woman in the Anglo Boer War
British welfare campaigner, Emily Hobhouse, renowned for her work to ease the suffering of Boer women and children in British concentration camps during the Anglo Boer, set up home industries in the former Orange Free State and Transvaal to assist Boer families. In Philippolis in the OFS, Boer women are taught weaving and other skills to supplement their meagre earnings.