Comments on: Off topic: Casualties and Brass Plaques

By: Adrian Monck

Adrian Monck — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:39:02 +0000

Thanks Mike, I’ve corrected it above.

By: Mike van Tonder

Mike van Tonder — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:29:59 +0000

Hi there — “Afrikaaner” is a common error. Afrikaans-speaking people are Afrikaners.

By: stephen miller

stephen miller — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:37:32 +0000

Lara,
Although the British were the first to employ the systematic use of concentration camps in wartime, the dubious honor of “setting” up the first modern camp goes to the Spanish during the Cuban war just a few years earlier.

By: Adrian Monck

Adrian Monck — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:36:49 +0000

You can read much more about those concentration (or refugee) camps here.

By: Lara Pawson

Lara Pawson — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:11:56 +0000

So it doesn’t mention the concentration camps we set up? The first, I believe, anywhere…