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| Second Boer War concentration camps | |
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| Part of Second Boer War | |
 Tents in the Bloemfontein concentration camp | |
| Date | 1899-1902 |
Attack type | Internment |
| Deaths | Over 47,900 deaths: |
| Victims | 154,000 interned in British concentration camps |
| Perpetrators | British Empire, particularly Herbert Kitchener |
During the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902), the British operated concentration camps in the South African Republic, Orange Free State, Natal, and the Cape Colony. In February of 1900, Herbert Kitchener took command of the British forces and implemented some of the controversial tactics that led to a British victory.[3]
As the Boers used a 'guerrilla warfare' strategy, they lived off the land and used their farms as a source of food, thus making their farms a key item in their many successes at the beginning of the war. When Kitchener realized that a traditional warfare style would not work against the Boers, he began initiating plans that would later cause much controversy in the British public.[4][5]
- ^ "Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo–Boer War 2, 1900–1902 | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- ^ "To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the 'Black' Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post), | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- ^ "Herbert Kitchener: The taskmaster | National Army Museum". National Army Museum.
- ^ "Methods of Barbarism", Archives of Empire, Duke University Press, pp. 683–685, 2003-12-31, doi:10.2307/j.ctv1220psq.85, retrieved 2023-12-28
- ^ Hobhouse, Emily (1902). The Brunt of the War, and where it Fell. Methuen & Company.