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To be clear, this is how concentration camps started more than a century ago.
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I mean that literally. Concentration camps rose out of 19th-century military strategies designed to crush terrorists and rebels by creating holding areas for noncombatants, though it was understood even then that their use would cause *civilians* horrific suffering.
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These earliest recognizable concentration camps were in Cuba, southern Africa, and the Philippines, and they built on the legacy of Spanish, German, British, and US government treatment of indigenous people in the Americas and elsewhere.
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And the Boer War got ugly that way too
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And also, “unconnected” is…quite subjective, and we know who will be the arbiters of that definition.
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Gaza strip was already a concentration camp. Now it's an artillery firing range
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the dehumanizing language... "mops up" I'm shuddering.
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Townships, one might say.
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Frankly Gaza IS a concentration camp now. They've just replaced the ovens and gas chambers with bombs.
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There were started from GULAGs, nazis learned this from CCCP experience.
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Britain had concentration camps in the Second Boer War in the late 1890s-1900s