Second Boer War concentration camps

Second Boer War concentration camps
Part of Second Boer War
Tents in the Bloemfontein concentration camp
Date	1899-1902
Attack type	Internment
Deaths	Over 47,900 deaths: 27,927 Boers 20,000 or more native Africans [1][2]
Victims	154,000 interned in British concentration camps
Perpetrators	British Empire, particularly Herbert Kitchener

During the Second Anglo-Boer War which lasted from 1899–1902, the British operated concentration camps in the South Africa Republic, Orange Free State, Natal and the Cape Colony. In February of 1900, Herbert Kitchener took command of the British forces and implemented some of the controversial tactics that led to a British victory.^[3]

As the Boers used a 'guerrilla warfare' strategy, they lived off the land and used their farms as a source of food making their farms a key item in their many successes at the beginning of the war. When Kitchener realised that a traditional warfare style would not work against the Boers, he began initiating plans that would later cause much controversy in the British public.^[4][5]