British Concentration Camps

[Bono]

No, it isnt a jewish child in a Nazi Concentration Camp. He is called Abraham Carel Wessels, picture taken in the Concentration Camp, of Bloemfontein, South Africa, around 1900, during the second Anglo-Boer war. About 27000 women and children died in one of the 31 concentration camps created by the British to cut the civil population support to the boer guerilla.

The Concentration Camps (1899 - 1902):


    According to a British journalist, WT Stead, the concentration camps were nothing more than a cruel torture machine. He writes: "Every one of these children who died as a result of the halving of their rations, thereby exerting pressure onto their family still on the battle-field, was purposefully murdered. The system of half rations stands exposed and stark and unshamefully as a cold-blooded deed of state policy employed with the purpose of ensuring the surrender of people whom we were not able to defeat on the battlefield."

[Bono]

Ah, the good old days of British Imperialism. I'm glad at least that the British have had the sense to renounce those ways.

Now it's time for the United States to do the same.

*ducks for cover*

[Bono]

Ah, the good old days of British Imperialism. I'm glad at least that the British have had the sense to renounce those ways.

Now it's time for the United States to do the same.

*ducks for cover*

Bono, you've really gone off the deep end.

I was talking about imperialism, not concentration camps.

And as could be infered from "*ducks for cover*", I was half joking.