Thread:General MGD 109/@comment-92.15.129.47-20141103213046/@comment-1509826-20141103223914

Okay from what I've read, your talking about during the second Boer war. Back when Churchill was a minor officer. Well for one thing those camps were organised by General Kitchener not him (he may have partaken into that, but then so did every other soldier and officer in the British Army in South Africa).

And from what I've read, that was more stupidity than evil. What happened was the British couldn't beat the Boer Gurrilers, cause they were being supplied by natives. So General Kitchener came up with the brillaint idea, to round them all up in big camps and keep them locked up till the war ended.

The trouble is (cause he was a bit of an idiot, who only achieved his rank thanks to his family) it never occured to them how they were going to feed all these people. So a lot of them starved. Likewise squalor built up causing disease outbreak. And it wasn't just the prisoners, the guards got sick and nearly starved to death to.

But the plan worked and the war was won, so Kitchener was happy to recieve a medle and move on. Shame really, if they had taken notice, someone a bit brighter might have been there lead Britain in World War Two.

So No, doesn't count.