At 18:50 14/10/99 +0100, you wrote:
> Just a short while ago the 100 year anniversary of the Boer occurred. It
>is a war is little discussed despite the importance Lenin seems attributed
>to it as a historic event. Warm regards
>George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web
site at
>http://homepage.tinet.ie/~beprepared/
The fact of British concentration camps for the Boers was known. Until I
saw Channel Four tonight I did not know that there were also conctration
camps for 120,000 blacks. One report quoted an order that tents were to be
reserved only for white concentration camps, not black.
The Boer war was a war against civilians, rather like Kosovo and East
Timor. It aimed to deprive the guerillas of their supporting population.
Having relied on the blacks to defeat the Boers, the British compromised in
the political settlement and left the question of enlarging the franchise
until after self rule was re-established for the Boer Republics.
What hypocrisy.
Chris Burford
London
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