Internment of civilians by the British in the 1899-1902 African conflict
"British concentration camps" redirects here. For detention camps during the Mau Mau Uprising, see List of British Detention Camps during the Mau Mau Uprising.
Second Boer War concentration camps
Part of Second Boer War
Tents in the Bloemfontein concentration camp
Date
1899-1902
Attack type
Internment
Deaths
Over 47,900 deaths:
27,927 Boers
20,000 or more native Africans [1][2]
Victims
154,000 interned in British concentration camps
Perpetrators
British Empire, particularly Herbert Kitchener
Boer women and children in a concentration camp
During the Second Anglo-Boer War which lasted from 1899–1902, the British operated concentration camps in the South Africa 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 making their farms a key item in their many successes at the beginning of the war. When Kitchener realised 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.
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