Editing Second Boer War (section)

=== Views on British tactics ===

The British saw their tactics of scorched earth and concentration camps as a legitimate way of depriving the Boer guerrillas of supplies and safe havens.{{sfn|Sibbald|1993|page=214}} The Boers saw them as a British attempt to coerce the Boers into surrender,<ref name="The Bitter Legacy of the Boer War">{{cite web|last=Grundlingh|first=Albert|title=The Bitter Legacy of the Boer War|url=http://www.historytoday.com/albert-grundlingh/bitter-legacy-boer-war|work=History Today}}</ref> with the camp inmates—mainly families of Boer fighters—seen as deliberately kept in poor conditions to encourage high death rates.<ref name="Concentration Camps 1899-1902">{{cite web|last=Barnard|first=Hennie|title=The Concentration Camps 1899–1902|url=http://www.boer.co.za/boerwar/hellkamp.htm|access-date=12 November 2012|archive-date=3 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103173346/http://www.boer.co.za/boerwar/hellkamp.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> Even in 2019, the controversy around the British tactics continued to make headlines.<ref name="Boer War: British MP sparks outrage">{{cite news|last=Gous|first=Nico|title=Boer War women, children put in concentration camps 'for own good': British MP sparks outrage|newspaper=Timeslive |url=https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-africa/2019-02-15-boer-war-women-children-put-in-concentration-camps-for-own-good}}</ref>