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Worth adding to this discussion. The origin of the term "concentration camp" goes back to the Boer War, the war the British Empire fought agst Afrikaner settlers from 1899-1902. The camps began as refugee camps for civilians displaced by the war. But they quickly transformed ...
2/ into a tool to break the Boer rebellion by clearing out the civilian population it lived on. They were largely populated by women, children and non-military age men. Men were deported or sent to other facilities. Families of men still in arms were often allotted less food ...
3/ as a matter of policy. These camps didn't start as any effort to kill anyone & as far as I know forced labor wasn't a part of it. But many thousands of women and children ended up dying in these camps due mainly to epidemic disease facilitated by neglect, poor hygiene etc.
4/ It's a very dark history, one that has nothing to do with the Nazi holocaust and has at least some points of comparison to the current situation.
