| |
Concentration camp - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-24) |
 | | The term concentration camp was coined at this time to signify the "concentration" of a large number of people in one place, and was used to describe both the camps in South Africa and those established to support a similar anti-insurgency campaign in Cuba at roughly the same time (see below). |
 | | Though they were not extermination camps, the Boer camps were noted for their poor nutrition and bad hygiene, and the associated high mortality rates (28,000 women and children died). |
 | | About a dozen concentration camps were in operation until the early 1990s, the figure of which has been curtailed to five today due to increasing criticism of the North's perceived human rights abuses from the international community and the North's internal situation. |
| encyclopedia.learnthis.info /c/co/concentration_camp_1.html (2719 words) |