Quote Originally Posted by Greyblades View Post
Yes we should have let them stay to starve with thier burning farms instead of attempting to keep them alive by putting them at the mercies of 19th century logistics and sanitation.

The boers started a war they could not win to protect their right to deny their utilanders the vote and right to treat their black neighbours bad enough to make 19th century europe cringe. They died in those camps because their leaders decided to wage a guerilla campaign beyond the point of sanity.

The standard response to guerilla tactincs was scorched earth, it was British sensibilities that put the civillians into camps to prevent them all starving and when the civillians started to succumb to camp diseases the boers kept fighting the hopeless war regardless. When the British stopped admitting new boers into the camps due to public outcry back home at their condition the guerillas found they now had to provide for their own people. They promptly surrendered.

The boers were not the jews and the british were not the nazis, no matter how much the current post colonial thought might wish you to think so.
I see. The British waged a righteous war solely to stop the Boers' depredations and mistreating the natives. And when the Boers were defeated all these practices were stopped and all wrongs done to natives put to right. Apartheid didn't flourish since then and Mandela was fighting windmills all his life.