Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps...
Seibold, Birgit Susanne![Emily Hobhouse and the Reports on the Concentration Camps during the Boer War 1899-1902](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/434/43422812/CHSBZCOP0343422812.jpg)
The British scorched earth policy during the last phase of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 led to the burning of farms, the destruction of homesteads, harvests and livestock and to the internment of the civil population in the so-called concentration camps. There, people - mainly women and children - died of malnutrition and diseases such as measles, pneumonia and typhoid. The death rate in the camps was so high - nearly 28, 000 white Boers su...