The Nazis were not the only ones who operated concentration camps.
Britain used them in South Africa and Kenya.
In Kenya, the camps were sites for random executions and Interrogation involved stuffing detainees mouth with mud and stomping their throats till they passed out.
Before the British fought the Nazis, they used history’s first concentration camps to commit genocide during the Boer War.
These camps were built by British soldiers amid the Boer War, during which the British rounded up Dutch Boers and native South Africans and locked them into cramped camps where they died off by the thousands.
This is where the word “concentration camp” was first used – in British camps that systematically imprisoned more than 115,000 people and saw at least 25,000 of them killed off.
In fact, more men, women, and children died of starvation and disease in these camps than did men actually fighting in the Second Boer War of 1899 to 1902, a territorial struggle in South Africa.
And yet the first genocide of the 20th century started with good intentions.
The camps were originally set up as refugee camps, meant to house the families that had been forced to abandon their homes to escape the ravages of war."
And then there was Kenya…
The Kikuyu genocide took place in the 1950s, a decade after the Holocaust and the West’s promise to never again allow the destruction of entire peoples.
And it saw virtually the entire population of 1.5 million Kikuyu locked up in concentration camps, where they were starved, beaten, and tortured to death by the tens of thousands.
- Kirigiti ( Kiambu ).
- Fort Hall.
- Maralal.
- Manyani.
- Shimo la Tewa.
- Hola.
Hangings , Torture , Rape , Sodomy , Amputations , Starvation and being buried alive …
WE WILL REMEMBER ALL OF THEM..
