> Interesting that this BBC article doesn't mention that the concentration camp was arguably a British invention in the first place
Probably because the BBC knows that's not even remotely true. The very term "concentration camp" itself derives from the earlier Spanish reconcentrados (reconcentration camps), used most notoriously in Cuba.
The USA not only employed concentration camps - alongside vast amounts of other barbarism, including waterboarding - in the Philippines, as they had done decades earlier against the native American Indians, and even during the American Civil War, but actually forced an act upon that country, the Reconcentration Act of 1903 to forcibly relocate populations into designated areas.
Aside from the USA and Spain using concentration camps well before the second Boer War, the French also used them in Algeria in the 1830s and 1850s.
There are probably other examples, but the first modern era (last ~200 years) concentration camp is perhaps the one established by the Paraguayan military in 1813.
Probably because the BBC knows that's not even remotely true. The very term "concentration camp" itself derives from the earlier Spanish reconcentrados (reconcentration camps), used most notoriously in Cuba.
The USA not only employed concentration camps - alongside vast amounts of other barbarism, including waterboarding - in the Philippines, as they had done decades earlier against the native American Indians, and even during the American Civil War, but actually forced an act upon that country, the Reconcentration Act of 1903 to forcibly relocate populations into designated areas.
Aside from the USA and Spain using concentration camps well before the second Boer War, the French also used them in Algeria in the 1830s and 1850s.
There are probably other examples, but the first modern era (last ~200 years) concentration camp is perhaps the one established by the Paraguayan military in 1813.