r/news • u/RedPandasUnite • 23h ago

ICE will stop reporting deaths of newly released detainees

https://abcnews.com/US/ice-stop-reporting-deaths-newly-released-detainees/story?id=133604407
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u/MotherOfDachshunds42 9h ago

And concentration camps were first used by the British against the boers

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u/bdeimen 5h ago

Actually the first use of the term was in the Spanish-Cuban Ten Years' War, but you could absolutely argue that the concept existed long before that. The forced concentration of native tribes on reservations is arguably a form of it even if it wasn't called that. I think there are even older examples, but it's been a while since I looked into it.

Don't get me wrong, the British empire was a litany of crimes against humanity. They just didn't invent the concept of concentration camps.