Concentration Camps Report, Boer War, 1902

General report by the Concentration Camps Commission containing reports of the Natal, the Orange River and the Transvaal concentration camps, published by HMSO, London, 1902.

When the Earl Kitchener took command of the British forces fighting in the Boer War (1899-1902) in late 1900, he implemented new tactics to break the guerilla campaign. Boer farms were destroyed under a policy known as the 'Scorched Earth' policy, which included the destruction of crops, the slaughtering or confiscation of livestock and the burning down of homes and farms. Tens of thousands of men, women and children were forcibly removed into these concentration camps, set up by the British Army. Forty-five tented camps were established for Boer internees and sixty four were built for black Africans.

From a collection of three paper bound volumes of reports on concentration camps and refugee camps in South Africa, 1901-1902.