ABSTRACT
During the last phase of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) in what is now South Africa, the remaining Boer fighters pursued a guerrilla warfare campaign against the conventional British forces occupying the former Boer republics. To deny resources and intelligence to the Boer fighters, the British destroyed Boer farms and confined Boer non-combatants in concentration camps where around 25,000 Boers and 20,000 of their African servants died of disease and hunger. British activist Emily Hobhouse visited the camps and wrote scathing reports that prompted British domestic criticism of London’s conduct of the war.
