Showing Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War 1899-1902: Two Different Perspectives by Birgit Susanne Seibold

Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps During the Boer War 1899-1902 The British scorched earth policy during the last phase of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 led to the burning of farms, the destruction of homesteads, harvests and livestock and to the internment of the civil population in the so-called concentration camps. There, people - mainly women and children - died of malnutrition and diseases such as measles, pneumonia and typhoid. The death rate in the ca... Full description