War Crimes Who are the guilty one`s

[burt.gummer]

its a islamic extremist apoligist ,pretend bleeding heart, trying to put you on a guilt trip .

 

that makes more sense, thanks.

[bottle of be]

Its seems that truth is the first lost,in the past we have been excellent at misinformation, with that in mind I wonder what in the future truths, come out of afghanistan. It tends to come out later or in some case`s much later, will Mr Blair & co be hero`s or the opposite,what do you think?

[bottle of be]

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The term Concentration camp was first used by the British in the Boer wars. this was very different form the concentration camps used in Nazi Germany. they were not death camps but camps in which the family of Boer rebbels were imprisoned so that they could not aid the rebels.

However concentration camps have been used before this (only they were not called concentration camps) they were used by the spanish in the 1860's even american soldiers used similar camps on cherokee and other native americans in the 1830's

so this type of military tactic has been around for a long time, but the term is british.

[burt.gummer]

Its seems that truth is the first lost,in the past we have been excellent at misinformation, with that in mind I wonder what in the future truths, come out of afghanistan. It tends to come out later or in some case`s much later, will Mr Blair & co be hero`s or the opposite,what do you think?

 

the afgans want to live in peace not fear, so heroes.

[burt.gummer]

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The term Concentration camp was first used by the British in the Boer wars. this was very different form the concentration camps used in Nazi Germany. they were not death camps but camps in which the family of Boer rebbels were imprisoned so that they could not aid the rebels.

However concentration camps have been used before this (only they were not called concentration camps) they were used by the spanish in the 1860's even american soldiers used similar camps on cherokee and other native americans in the 1830's

so this type of military tactic has been around for a long time, but the term is british.

 

ok its a british term, why not answer my questions?

[bottle of be]

your questions, what questions, do you mean statments.

[HeadingNorth]

It's quite easy, looking back with seventy years of hindsight, to spot war crimes committed by both sides in the Second World War; at least, actions committed which, by today's standards, constitute a war crime.

 

Naturally, at the time the war ended, it was the winning side who prosecuted those people on the losing side who had committed them; not the other way around.

 

 

There are a disturbingly large number of people who will argue that it's only a war crime if the enemy is doing it and not if the friendly side is; it never seems to occur to them that the opposing side has exactly the same justification.

[Vague_Boy]

yep your right it was us too that invented concentration camps we used them in the Boer war

 

A common historical misconception:

 

The earliest of these camps may have been those set up in the United States for Cherokee and other Native Americans in the 1830s; however, the term originated in the reconcentrados (reconcentration camps) set up by the Spanish military set up in Cuba during the Ten Years' War (1868-1878) and by the United States during the Philippine–American War (1899–1902). The English term "concentration camp" grew in prominence during the Second Boer War (1899-1902), when they were operated by the British in South Africa.

 

Polish historian Władysław Konopczyński has suggested the first concentration camps were created in Poland in the 18th century, during the Bar Confederation rebellion, when the Russian Empire established three concentration camps for Polish rebel captives awaiting deportation to Siberia.

 

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[artisan]

The camps in SA were concentration camps certainly.

But they were not death camps, as the NAZIs had

All they were was places that captured soldiers were kept confined.

No one was tortured, gassed or cremated in those places.

Read and learn a little history before you spout off.

[Jabberwocky]

if that were true, why is it we are aware of the other sides view of history?

 

As I said: They TRY to downplay it.