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The Boer War was by modern terms a genocide with some of the most horrific acts of barbarism against the Boer People. Concentration camps where invented by the English during the Boer War and in fact the Boers were to be histories 1st holocaust victims!
The Boer War
http://www.anglo-boer.co.za/offensive.html
Emily Hobhouse – Angel of Mercy
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Whobhouse.htm
This is a very one sided documentary, using emotional pleas to get the audience on their side. It had the opposite effevt on me before i watched this i would have been more pro Boer, but this has left me unsure due to its grose bias, a very low point for the usually good BBC.
May all of you who justify a genocide in the name of commodities, whether it is the oil of today or the gold of the Boer wars, burn in hell with the Imperialist leaders of the British Empire who enforced such cowardice policies. God will not leave these acts unpunished. Good luck to those hypocrites who posted the comments below. Id rather be in a British imposed concentration camp than in any of your shoes!!!
He may as well refer the the English as “the poopy faced British” and the Boers as “the giant-dicked superfabulous Boers”, this is retarded.
I really just want to hear what happened, I don’t need that drivel.
Seriously, how about a little more neutrality and a bit less spewing?
It undermines the entire excercize and makes me wonder what he leaves out to get his point across.
You silly old cunt..As insensitive as the British were to even their own soldiers Better luck next time for every unlucky British soldier that gets killed in Iraq or Afghanistan??
someone should shoot that silly old cunt on the video. unlucky boers – you lose. better luck next time.
Yep and were you aware that Maori’s fought the Boers in bw2.
I hear the British use sugar in their toothpaste.
Wee hen die de hand uitstrekken naar Gods kinderen ! De HEERE heeft de Britten gestraft met 2 wereldoorlogen en het verlies van hun ”empire”.
Dude, jy mis die punt. Soos Gerbrand hieronder, is julle net daarop uit om mense teen mekaar te draai, nes al die ander idiote wat pro-afrikaner snert kwyt raak op youtube. Maak geen fout nie, ek is trots afrikaans. Maar my eerste prioriteit is om te sien dat ons land vreedsaam vorentoe gaan. Om dwars te probeer trek is nie in ons beste “interest” nie. Maar, op n ander noot, ek het baie gehou van die dokumenter.
nee Skinballas, nou praat jy k*k. Daar is 2 kenmerkende volke met afrikaans as taal ingemee. Die englese het na hulle verwys as die Cape Dutch en the Boer Dutch of die Afrikaner volk en die Boer volk. Die afrikaner volk met sy ryk tradisie van onderdanigheid ann eers die Holanders en toe die Engelse baase en later die ANC. Die kunsmatige saamemesmelting van all volke en tale in suider akrika is “”Suid Afrikaners”
Die Afrikaners en die Boere is dieselfde mense, nes die mense in Brakpan dieslefde is as die mense in Waterkloof, of die mense in Liverpool dieselfde is as die in London. Ek sien wat Pinard7 probeer se, hy se dit net nie ordentlik nie. Die Afrikaner en die Boere se “roots” bly dieselfde. Vandag is ons almal Suid Afrikaners!
Gerbrand, jy praat deur jou gat, jy klink nou soos n ANC Youth leier! Shut up, geen Brit van vandag hoef jammer te voel of te se nie, dis water onder die brug.
94,000 british casualties, 9000 Boer, as per Wikipedia
Why would the British create a documentary that is biased towards the Boers. Maybe the Boers, although they lost the war, did come out the other side looking like true victors, and so they should, like they say, 20,000 vs 500,000. Hardly seems a fair fight, does it?
Well said.
The comparison between our revolution and the Boer war is not apt. The Transvaal and Orange Free State were independent nations, not British colonies. British leaders and entrepreneurs in the Cape colony agitated for war with these indepedent nations out of greed. Milner and Rhodes were the worst of the bunch. The British were solely to blame for the war and, to my knowledge, the atrocities committed during it.
What was the BBC to do, manufacture some Boer culpability to “balance things”?
From the perspective of an American this stuff looks ridiculously biased towards the boers.
But we do the same thing when we talk about the American revolution. Demonize the British and glorify the founding fathers.
Typical propaganda piece, viewing a historical period out of its context, as if those events were occurring in a modern context, rather than capturing the historical context and values of the time, as a serious historian would. And no, BBC is not substandard, it is a standard news organization, which means, garbage.
Convincingly argued. Bravo! Maybe next you could argue that the BBC is a substandard news organization because it “sucks.” It’s a very convincing argument.
Cld someone explain to me why a people that suffered so much seemed to have so little sympathy for the blacks later on, when they were fighting for equality? I am completely ignorant of the history.
does anyone know what that presenters name is?
this was not the fault of the british people it was the ruling classes. the soldiers were made to charge gunfire again and again just like ww1. if you knew how the british class system worked you see that we were used more like disposable machines. the penalty for not walking where told was death for a soldier.
Ja, ons is verdruk en verneder. ‘n Paar honderd jaar se moeite vergeefs. Maar uiteindelik het ons ons eie republiek gekry waarvoor ons so lank gesweet het. Ons het egter besef dat ons nie met ‘n skoon gewete ander volke kan aanhou onderdruk nie. En in een van die eerste vredevolle oorhandigings van mag het ons nuwe hoop gegee aan ALLE Suid-Afrikaners, aan Afrika, en aan die wêreld. Ons is nog steeds hier en ons baklei nog steeds … vir ‘n beter lewe vir ALMAL in SA.
This is not serious history. Almost comical. However, I am sure that many consider this quite good. They violate just about every rule a serious historian has to follow to even have a chance to grasping the essence of a period. Watching this will just make you more stupid, unless you ignore it. There is NOTHING in this that is convincing, if you are an objective person.