Comment on The UK just took a harder stance on Banksy than genocide

• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You must be a real Boer at parties.

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• reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Also the country that “handed control” to Israel

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• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not the USA? Or are they just once again trying to take credit for other people’s work?

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  • hanrahan@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    https://samilhistory.com/2018/12/07/debunking-the-myth-that-the-british-invented-the-concentration-camp/

    The actual term ‘concentration camp’ was invented by the Spanish (as campo de concentración or campo de reconcentración) in 1896 – three years before the 2nd Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1904) started. It originated during The Cuban War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia cubana, 1895–98) was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain.

    A rebellion had broken out in Cuba, then a Spanish colony in 1895. The rebels, outnumbered by Spanish government troops, turned to guerrilla warfare (and here another myth which says the Boer’s invented ‘guerrilla warfare’ is debunked).

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