Today in Labor History May 17, 1900: Following the siege of Mafeking, during the Second Boer War, over 27,000 Boer women and children died in some of the world's first concentration camps. The Spanish had actually created similar death camps in Cuba during the Ten Year’s War (1868-1878). However, the death camps in South Africa were the first to be called concentration camps. Additionally, the Boer War concentration camp system was the first time an entire nation had been targeted. During the war, Mahatma Gandhi and 800 Indian slaves started the Ambulance Corps to serve the British. Just a few years later, 1904, the German Empire committed a genocide against the Herero people of southwest Africa, slaughtering 80% of them, and 50% of the Nama people.

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Today in Labor History, May 16: Romani Resistance Day, commemorating the Roma and Sinti people who fought the fascists during World War II. The date was chosen due to a Holocaust survivor stating that on May 16, 1944, there was a rebellion of Roma detainees at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. However subsequent research by the Auschwitz Museum discovered that this date was most likely incorrect. It was actually in early April that a number of Roma prisoners refused orders from the SS to leave to work in Germany. Instead, a Polish prisoner was ordered to make a list of Roma able to work to be transported later. By 2 August 1944, those Roma able to work had been transported elsewhere, when the SS came to take the others to the gas chambers. The prisoners armed themselves with crowbars and fought back, but were eventually overcome and gassed.

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RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116522809705945405

What is a concentration camp?

What are examples of concentration camps?

Are the more than 240 active ICE detention facilities concentration camps?

Read the definition and decide for yourself.

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thinking about the Jodensavanne camp in WWII Surinaam. It was for NSB members deported from the Dutch East Indies but also Indonesian nationalists and conscientious objectors. Because they were considered traitors, the first commander of the camp told them they would not be going to hospital in Paramaribo except to die
https://popular.info/p/ice-has-not-paid-for-detainee-medical

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