Britain’s Boer War victory interned over 200,000 civilians in camps

Evidence

Britain’s violent victory found a hundred thousand Boer women and children in concentration camps, more than a hundred thousand Africans likewise incarcerated, and Boer farms in smoking ruins. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 550

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Finkel’s concentration camp scholarship and to genocide studies debates over whether camps constitute atrocity. — connects to: British concentration camps in the South African War killed almost thirty thousand civilians.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 550

Broader Connections

• British concentration camps in the South African War killed almost thirty thousand civilians. #expands (0.92)