Word: weyler
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Somewhat more than a hundred thousand Boer women and children have been driven from their homes and have been herded together in camps like those established by General Weyler in Cuba. For a considerable time the families of those still in the field were given only half rations, with the idea that the men, seeing their wives and children in a starving condition, would be driven to submission. Even in England this policy was so bitterly denounced that it had finally to be abandoned. The policy of extermination, however, whether the result of deliberation or indifference, has been continued...