View Poll Results: How do you feel when you aren't wanted Down Under?
Completely Fine with it
7
63.64%
Hate it
1
9.09%
Don't like it, prefer if they keep it to themselves
3
27.27%
Neutral
3
27.27%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 11. You may not vote on this poll
Your Thoughts on TodayTonight's Report on the British Invasion
Jan 22nd 2014, 2:14 pm
#46
Proudly Deplorable
Joined: May 2003
Location: Alloha snack bar
Posts: 24,246
Re: Your Thoughts on TodayTonight's Report on the British Invasion
The army proved incapable of managing these camps and there were no other organisations around to run them either - this was a time before the UN and Red Cross. Hence the outcome that happened
The Afrikaners later exploited these camps for their own political ends but the reality was quite different
Jan 22nd 2014, 2:42 pm
#47
snɐןɔ ʎʇıuɐs
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 6,558
Re: Your Thoughts on TodayTonight's Report on the British Invasion
Jan 22nd 2014, 2:51 pm
#48
Chan eil aon chànan gu le
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: On the ning nang nong
Posts: 22,437
Jan 22nd 2014, 4:44 pm
#50
Proudly Deplorable
Joined: May 2003
Location: Alloha snack bar
Posts: 24,246
Jan 22nd 2014, 6:12 pm
#51
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Feb 2006
Location: Gold Coast
Posts: 25,277
Re: Your Thoughts on TodayTonight's Report on the British Invasion
No, that is Nazi propaganda originally from Dr. Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister.
Concentration camps were used before the Second Anglo Boer war. One example is Cuba 1896, four years before their use by the British in South Africa. The Spanish named them ''reconcentrados'' (reconcentrating place).
The Spanish camps killed far more people than the British camps; the Havana camp alone killed 50,000 people, nearly twice as many victims as the 28,000 Boer deaths that concern us so much today. It is estimated the Spanish camps killed 100,000 - 300,000 people in total. This was known as The Cuban Holocaust.
Commentators prefer to concentrate on the British use of camps in 1900, while overlooking the US camps of the same year in the Phillipines, Spanish camps in 1896 in Cuba, or the German camps of 1905 in Deutsche-Suid West Afrika.
Boer Nationalists insist on calling the British camps 'death camps' even though legitimate historians all make it clear the purpose of the British camps was not annihilation but merely detention, unlike the German camps of 1905, or the Nazi konzentrationslagers of the Holocaust.
The Spanish camps imprisoned civilians, and it is pretty clear from
the description of the Spanish camps given by Senator Redfield Proctor in his speech "Concentration Camps of Cuba 1895-1898" that the Spanish camps are concentration camps. Barbed wire, guard towers, sentries, neglected civilian inmates, centralisation around rail junctions, and massive mortality due to disease and starvation being typical features of concentration camps. Proctor's description is recorded in Clara Barton's book 'The Red Cross' Barton was a founder of The Red Cross.
Concentration camps were used before the Second Anglo Boer war. One example is Cuba 1896, four years before their use by the British in South Africa. The Spanish named them ''reconcentrados'' (reconcentrating place).
The Spanish camps killed far more people than the British camps; the Havana camp alone killed 50,000 people, nearly twice as many victims as the 28,000 Boer deaths that concern us so much today. It is estimated the Spanish camps killed 100,000 - 300,000 people in total. This was known as The Cuban Holocaust.
Commentators prefer to concentrate on the British use of camps in 1900, while overlooking the US camps of the same year in the Phillipines, Spanish camps in 1896 in Cuba, or the German camps of 1905 in Deutsche-Suid West Afrika.
Boer Nationalists insist on calling the British camps 'death camps' even though legitimate historians all make it clear the purpose of the British camps was not annihilation but merely detention, unlike the German camps of 1905, or the Nazi konzentrationslagers of the Holocaust.
The Spanish camps imprisoned civilians, and it is pretty clear from
the description of the Spanish camps given by Senator Redfield Proctor in his speech "Concentration Camps of Cuba 1895-1898" that the Spanish camps are concentration camps. Barbed wire, guard towers, sentries, neglected civilian inmates, centralisation around rail junctions, and massive mortality due to disease and starvation being typical features of concentration camps. Proctor's description is recorded in Clara Barton's book 'The Red Cross' Barton was a founder of The Red Cross.
Jan 22nd 2014, 6:48 pm
#53
Chan eil aon chànan gu le
Joined: Feb 2009
Location: On the ning nang nong
Posts: 22,437
Jan 22nd 2014, 7:04 pm
#55
Proudly Deplorable
Joined: May 2003
Location: Alloha snack bar
Posts: 24,246
Jan 22nd 2014, 9:12 pm
#57
BE Enthusiast
Joined: Jan 2008
Location: Balgowlah, NSW
Posts: 664
Re: Your Thoughts on TodayTonight's Report on the British Invasion
Jan 22nd 2014, 9:17 pm
#58
Banned
Joined: Jan 2011
Location: The REAL Utopia.
Posts: 9,910
Re: Your Thoughts on TodayTonight's Report on the British Invasion
Jan 22nd 2014, 9:21 pm
#59
FREE TIBET
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 18,840
Re: Your Thoughts on TodayTonight's Report on the British Invasion
Another pom living in the past but knowing little of their country's history
Ballys beat me to it but if you knew anything about history, you would know that that war was between the British empire and 2 Boer republics (plus allies - including many Irish) in Southern Africa. There was no country called South Africa - Britain created it in 1910
I know it's virtually impossible for you but please try and check your facts before you mouth off on here
Ballys beat me to it but if you knew anything about history, you would know that that war was between the British empire and 2 Boer republics (plus allies - including many Irish) in Southern Africa. There was no country called South Africa - Britain created it in 1910
I know it's virtually impossible for you but please try and check your facts before you mouth off on here
