Anti-War

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Opposition to the Second Boer War began slowly but grew due in part to organisations like the Stop the War Committee.

Opposition was in Britain was initially low. However, as the war started to drag out, with it becoming clear that it would not easily be won, support began to wane. This controbuted to the defeat of the Conservative government in 1906. 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

The tactics used in the war by the British army caused a large backlash, with much public outrage at the use of scorched earth tactics, such as the burning of Boer homesteads, and the conditions in the concentration camps. It also became apparent that there were serious problems with the health of the British soldiers, with up to 40% of recruits unfit for military service. Most were suffering from poverty-related illnesses such as rickets. Concern over the health of the army recruits came at the same time there was increasing concern for the general state of the poor in Britain. A Scorched Earth policy is a military tactic which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy while advancing through or withdrawing from an area. ... Boer is the Afrikaans (and Dutch) word for farmer which came to denote the descendants of the Afrikaans-speaking migrating farmers of the expanding eastern Cape frontier. ... A concentration camp is a large detention centre created for political opponents, aliens, specific ethnic or religious groups, civilians of a critical war-zone, or other groups of people, often during a war. ... X-ray of the legs in a two-year-old child with rickets Rickets is a disorder of infancy and early childhood of multiple etiologies. ... Poverty describes a wide range of circumstances associated with need, hardship and lack of resources. ...

The use of Chinese labour, known as Coolies, after the war by the governor of the new crown colonies, Lord Milner, also caused much revulsion in the UK. Workers were often kept in appalling conditions, received only a small wage and were forbidden to socialise with the local population — this led to further public shock at the resulting homosexual acts between those forbidden the services of prostitutes. Some believe the Chinese slavery issue can be seen as the climax of public antipathy with the war. Coolie refers to unskilled laborers from Asia of the 1800s to early 1900s who were sent to the United States, Australia, New Zealand, North Africa and the West Indies. ... A United Kingdom overseas territory (formerly known as a dependent territory or earlier as a crown colony) is a territory that is under the sovereignty and formal control of the United Kingdom but is not part of the United Kingdom proper (Great Britain and Northern Ireland). ... The Right Honourable Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, KG, GCB, GCMG, PC (March 23, 1854 – May 13, 1925), was British statesman and colonial administrator. ... Since the first coinage, the word homosexuality has acquired multiple meanings. ... A sex worker in Germany. ... The Buxton Memorial Fountain, celebrating the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire in 1834, London. ...

Opposition to the war was highest amoung the Irish as many Irish nationalists sympathised with the Boers as they belived they were a people oppressed by British imperialism, much like themselves. Though there were many Irish troops fighting with the British army some Irish groups went as far as going over to fight on the side of the boers. Irish miners already in the Transvaal at the start of the war formed the nucleus of two Irish commandos and small groups of Irish volunteers went to South Africa to fight with the Boers — this despite the fact that there were . An Irish nationalist is generally one who seeks (greater) independence of Ireland from Great Britain, including since 1921 the goal of a United Ireland. ... Imperialism is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires, either through direct territorial conquest or through indirect methods of exerting control on the politics and/or economy of other countries. ... Two Irish commandos fought with the Boers during the Second Boer War (1899–1902) // Irish Transvaal Brigade John MacBride, a friend of Arthur Griffiths, organised the Irish Transvaal Brigade. ...

In England William Thomas Stead seat up the Stop the War Committee which campained against the war. William Thomas Stead (July 5, 1849 - April 15, 1912), English journalist, was born at Embleton, Northumberland, the son of a Congregational minister. ...

References

• Biography of W.T. Stead, W.T. Stead and his "Books for the Bairns", Sally Wood-Lamont, Salvia Books, Edinburgh, 1987