UK founding father of modern terrorism

December 30th, 2011

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

An interview with Elma Ventor, author of “British Terrorism Against Boer Civilians”

PressTV
30 Dec, 2011

A respected author says the British government had invented modern terrorism and the use of concentration camps which, in turn, provided a means for future psychopathic leaders.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, during the Boer Wars of present South Africa, farmers had revolted against their British-crown occupiers.

Britain’s use of the “Scorched Earth” policy included collecting and isolating the Boer civilian population into concentration camps – one of the earliest uses of this method by modern powers.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Elma Ventor, Boer War author, to further discuss the issue.

The following is a transcript of the interview.

Press TV: British atrocities were huge, but probably the ignorance of the two wars and what really constitutes terrorism against the whole people is greater. Now, you’ve got a book coming out about this, so how bad was it for the native population in the Boer Wars?

Ventor: My book is called British Terrorism Against Boer Civilians, and it is already on Amazon.

When I started working abroad, I realized that people do not really know about the Boer War and about the concentration camps. And they do not realize that Queen Victoria, it was the 7th Lord Kitchener and the British soldiers that fought in that war actually made terrorism acceptable.

Press TV: This sort of invented it, didn’t it? The “Scorched Earth” policy was a terrorist policy of destruction, denying the enemy access to food and shelter by simply burning it down, and then locking up their families in concentration camps which were, of course, a precursor to concentration camps in the Nazi period.

Ventor: Oh yes! This is a very relevant connection that you are making. The British attacked the farms with heavy artillery, and they burned down the houses. They killed their livestock. And in some cases, they would cut out the tongues of the animals so that the animals would die a slow death.

Then they got their soldiers to actually whip the women, the children, the sick, the elderly, the disabled, on for miles [on] soiled trucks bought for animals. They took them on those trucks for up to two days without water or sanitation or food.

And then they took them to the concentration camps where they put them in tiny tents; whole families of 12 people in a tiny tent that did not give any protection against the elements. And in some of those camps – there were 39 concentration camps – they starved up to 40 percent of the child population.

Press TV: How many people perished in these camps?

Ventor: Well, it’s 27,000 out of a total population of about 150,00 people. The Boer people were [formerly] about 200,000, but there were only about 150,000. And England starved 22,500 children.

Out of such a small population, England sent 450,000 soldiers against this tiny population. But they could not win on the battlefield against soldiers. So, they started to terrorize the women and the children.

And I wrote a letter to Mr. Obama at the back of the book answering his question: “when are you going to Buchenwald in 2010, to visit Buchenwald?” I can remember him looking up into the sky and he asked, “How did we get here?”

And I wrote this piece, it is a short piece, I will quickly read it to you. [Reading from a passage] “Dear Mr. Obama, I hear you ask “how did we get to Buchenwald?” We got into Buchenwald by forgetting the Anglo-Boer war, the camps of starvation of Boer children of a future nation. We got to Buchenwald by ignoring those in the British [concentration] camps, their fear and pain, as their cold bodies paid for British gain.

“We got to Buchenwald by the British monarchy promoting Kitchener for taking [a kind] that future psychopath leaders would follow; sending soldiers to attack the disabled, the weak, the elderly, desperate mothers and babies – trusting and meek; destroying their livestock and homes, everything they had; not blinking when the mothers were consumed with fright or sad; transporting [them] in soiled wagons of trains bought for cattle.

“What the heck! Fight the children and win the battle? -Locking up the poor kids to die of hunger and thirst…?