British establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… instead concentration camps. By the end of the war 4 177 women, 22 074 children and 1 676 elderly men, died in these … animals like horses, cattle and sheep, killed. Children, women and black people were put in concentration camps. … war there were more than 40 camps housing 116 000 white women and children, with another 60 camps housing 115 000 …