SA concentration camp, help me get it on digg

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Theres something that I've been wanting to submit to digg,
that is the concentration camps by the British for the Boers...
The English term "concentration camp" was first used to describe camps operated by the British in South Africa during this conflict.
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These where the first concentration camps as we know today
This was not the first appearance of internment camps. The Spanish used them in the Ten Years' War that later led to the Spanish-American War, and the United States used them to devastate guerrilla forces during the Philippine-American War. But the concentration camp system of the British was on a much larger scale.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Boer_War

I need a link/s to a good article on this, so that i/we can submit it to digg but I cant seem to find any

Anyone want to help out?

Edit:
I've submitted the link by Nod to digg
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/First_Concentration_Camps_where_British
you can digg it if you like
 
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The concentration camps are fairly well documented in most of the history texts regarding the Anglo-Boer war that i've ever read...
 
ToxicBunny: they are, but Ive not come across it on digg
I'm interested in the reaction, and enlightening people on this

Nod:
thanks good link,
I'll see if I can find more
 
Oh ok, I thought you were kind of indicating that it was a darkly kept secret, but then I spose I would know more than I really should since my grandfather was a very respected historian on the Anglo-Boer and Anglo-Zulu wars....
 
ToxicBunny said:
Oh ok, I thought you were kind of indicating that it was a darkly kept secret, but then I spose I would know more than I really should since my grandfather was a very respected historian on the Anglo-Boer and Anglo-Zulu wars....
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Really? wow thats good to hear
would we know who your grandfather was, is he a public figure?
 
His name was George Chadwick.

I do know he co-authored quite a few books in his life. Not sure where they're stored atm tbh, but I'll see if I can find any around the house.
 
What's not so well know is the treatment blacks received in the concentration camps. Much worse than the whites, again showing the apartheid legacy.
 
Now there I will agree with you Neo, the British troops were not very pleasant people. But then that was 100 years ago, things have changed since then.
 
rob33 said:
Most of the world is unaware of this thanks to the west's domination of the media
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I was taught about this in school - both in the US and UK.
Neo said:
What's not so well know is the treatment blacks received in the concentration camps. Much worse than the whites, again showing the apartheid legacy.
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How could this show the apartheid legacy if it happened close to 50 years before apartheid? :confused:
 
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You were taught about it in school in the US?

That is impressive.
 
ToxicBunny said:
Now there I will agree with you Neo, the British troops were not very pleasant people. But then that was 100 years ago, things have changed since then.
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Sure, what caught my attention watching a program on the camps a while ago was that you never see or hear about blacks. When I did get the info it was quite shocking, 1/3 of the food rations the whites got, etc.
 
ToxicBunny said:
You were taught about it in school in the US?

That is impressive.
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Truth be told it was more of a history of the concentration camp per se rather than the Boer War - the war was covered in the UK syllabus.
 
Yeah really cool actually.

I've never done a google search for him before.

Brings more than just a small tear to my eye to read this on one of the sites,
"Met sy dood op 26 Augustus 2000, 'n dag voor sy 76ste verjaardag, was hy 'n legende by alletaliges."

He was a really great man.
 
Neo said:
Sure, what caught my attention watching a program on the camps a while ago was that you never see or hear about blacks. When I did get the info it was quite shocking, 1/3 of the food rations the whites got, etc.
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more reason to post this,
the Brits where probably as bad as the Nazi's during WW2, yet you wont hear about it much
 
I would think the Germans were considerably worse than the British in this respect. The British weren't trying to wipe out a "race" whereas parts of the Nazi government were hell bent on ridding the world of Jews.
 
rob33 said:
more reason to post this,
the Brits where probably as bad as the Nazi's during WW2, yet you wont hear about it much
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Don't think the Brits killed about 6 million people.

Also the Nazi state made it a business to extract monetary value from the extermination camp system.

Heinz Hohne wrote a book titled 'The Order of the Death's Head: The Story of Hitler's SS'.

Chilling description of the extermination camp system.
 
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