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Thread ID: 8691 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-08-02
2003-08-02 06:25 | User Profile
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The concentration camps in which Britain killed 27 000 Boer women and children(24000) during the Second War of Independence (1899 - 1902) today still have far-reaching effects on the existence of the Boerevolk.
This holocaust once more enjoyed close scrutiny during the visit of the queen of England to South Africa, when ten organisations promoting the independence of the Boer Republics, presented her with a message, demanding that England redress the wrongs committed against the Boerevolk. ...
According to a British journalist, WT Stead, the concentration camps were nothing more than a cruel torture machine. He writes: "Every one of these children who died as a result of the halving of their rations, thereby exerting pressure onto their family still on the battle-field, was purposefully murdered. The system of half rations stands exposed and stark and unshamefully as a cold-blooded deed of state policy employed with the purpose of ensuring the surrender of people whom we were not able to defeat on the battlefield."
The detainees received no fruit or vegetables; not even milk for the babies.
The meat and flour issued were crawling with maggots. Emily Hobhouse writes: *"I have in my possession coffee and sugar which were described as follows by a London analyst: In the case of the first, 66% imitation, and in the case of the second, sweepings from a warehouse." *
In her book, Met die Boere in die Veld (With the Boers in the field), Sara Raal states that "there were poisonous sulphate of copper, grounded glass, fishhooks, and razor blades in the rations." The evidence given on this fact is so overwhelming that it must be regarded as a historical fact. ...
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[url=http://www.boer.co.za/boerwar/hellkamp.htm]Detailed Description of the First Concentration Camps and the Boer Genocide[/url]
WARNING: Some of the pictures on that site are quite graphic.
Does anyone think we'll ever see a movie commemorating the innocent civilians who died during the Boer War?
2003-08-02 07:06 | User Profile
I doubt it. Great Britain is one of America's allies so it is officially one of the "good guys" in mainstream culture here, that is of course outside of the incidents in which Great Britain was at war with an even more "righteous" country like America, a good example of this is Mel Gibson's The Patriot.
LOL is there anything possibly more hypocritical and amusing than the British of all people warning other nations about a nation bent upon world conquest? Just ask the Irish.
2003-08-02 09:08 | User Profile
>>>The explenation is very simple: this is not a crime, because the Boers were white, aryan christian people. It's only a crime if you do it upon the "chosen ones".
Don't forget it is "anti-Semitic" to recognize facts.