Sunday 9 August 2015

Emily Hobhouse, The compassionate Englishwoman who fought a war to save the Boer from British concentration camps

Emily Hobhouse, The compassionate Englishwoman who fought a war to save the Boer from British concentration camps

IT was a terrible war with atrocities, war crimes and concentration camps but it had nothing to do with the Nazis. This was the Boer War, 1899-1902, and the camps were set up by the British, of whose empire Australia was an integral part. It was also a war that blooded Australians for the catastrophe to follow.
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