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Concentration camp - Boer War
British concentration camp during the Boer War. Photograph: Hulton Getty
British concentration camp during the Boer War. Photograph: Hulton Getty

19 June 1901: The South African concentration camps

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Emily Hobhouse reports from inside the internment centres where Boer women and children face squalor and starvation
The Hobhouse report

The Guardian’s stance on the Boer War, and its willingness to publish unpalatable truths, was deeply unpopular to many in Britain and led to threats against Guardian workers in Manchester.

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