Violence against Boer women and children in South Africa

Second Boer War (Second Anglo-Boer War) - Violence against Boer women and children in South Africa - forced from their homes which were then burned to the ground. Boer farms were destroyed by the British under their "Scorched Earth" policy—including the systematic destruction of crops and slaughtering of livestock, the burning down of homesteads and farms (as seen here), and the poisoning of wells and salting of fields—to prevent the Boers from resupplying from a home base many tens of thousands of women and children were forcibly moved into the concentration camps.

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Mary Evans

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