Is there any truth in the rumour of the British initiciated the beginning of concentration camps?

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Only helpful answers please..no Brit-Bashing !

Answer 1

yip they did. it was during the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902 in South Africa that the British used concentration camps to house the Boer women and children etc

Answer 2

Partially.
The concentration camp, as the name indicates, is a camp intendet to "concentrate" a group of people to one place.
Typically, a group that is seen as troublesome.

The british government used such camps during the Boer wars, around 1900, moving the civilian population to camps, so that they could not suport the guerilla warfare of the boers.

However, they where not the first to do so. As I know of, the spanish did the same during the revolts on Cuba during the late 19th century.

The name concentration camp might in deed be of british origin, though.

These camps are however, while called the same, similar to the concentration camps of world war II, which where prison camps for political prisoners and POWs, with undesirable peoples beeing sent to extermination camps.

Answer 3

What? That is a strange question. Where did you even get that kind of idea.
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