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"Over 26,000 women and children were to perish in these concentration camps." |
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"the life or death of the 154,000 Boer and African civilians in the camps rated as an abysmally low priority" |
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"by February 1902 the annual death-rate in the concentration camps for white inmates dropped to 6.9 percent and eventually to 2 percent, which was a lower rate than pertained in many British cities at the time." |
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Comparing "27,927 Boers (of whom 24,074 [50 percent of the Boer child population] were children under 16) had died " with the death rates in British cities seems quite unlikely, and in any case unsupported with any evidence. |
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"Over 26,000 women and children were to perish in these concentration camps." "the life or death of the 154,000 Boer and African civilians in the camps rated as an abysmally low priority" "by February 1902 the annual death-rate in the concentration camps for white inmates dropped to 6.9 percent and eventually to 2 percent, which was a lower rate than pertained in many British cities at the time." Comparing "27,927 Boers (of whom 24,074 [50 percent of the Boer child population] were children under 16) had died " with the death rates in British cities seems quite unlikely, and in any case unsupported with any evidence.