Invaders Jovially Spread The Misery (Revised) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Some families were impoverished already when
they started their scorched earth policy, burning
land and houses of the wealthy, reducing them
to poverty as well; it is such a heart-warming
piece of information, it also helps to know

The British kindly reduced all to the life of misery
Emily Hobhouse stated. So to alleviate suffering in
‘concentration camps’, which were not such a bad
idea after all because everybody lost interest in
hygiene while dying, the English cheerfully –

No offence meant, stiff upper lip old chap, then
incarcerated ‘em in death camps. I commend the
author for specifying this detail – some families
were already starving – so this makes it easy to
understand how the invaders jovially spread

Misery equally throughout the whole community,
systematically starving ALL women and children in
camps without social distinction, a truly visionary,
insightful facet of the Anglo-Boer War which this
disdainfully discrete author describes

What a consolation to know some families were
already dying of hunger; all the English invaders did
was to see to it the wealthy also shared their fate,
with a perfect justification to starve women and
children regardless of wealth and social class…

And all exonerated because Boers were adamant
it was their land – when everyone knew the world
was shaped specifically for colonisation alone by
the British and acceptance of their reign is the only
thing that makes sense in an estranged universe…




*“The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A
Social History” by Elizabeth van Heyningen]

http: //samilitaryhistory.org/lectures/aftermath.html

'This scorched earth policy led to the destruction of about
30 000 Boer farmhouses and the partial/complete destruction
of more than forty towns. Thousands of women and children
were removed from their homes by force. They had no time to
remove valuables before the house was burnt down. Over
20 000 women and children died in British concentration
camps. An entire generation of Afrikaners had perished.'