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Farm Burning
The policy of burning Boer farms was approved by Lord Roberts, but there was strong public feeling
against it. Starting as specific reprisals for Boer attacks and building up to a general scorched earth
strategy to counter guerrilla warfare, the farm burning, taken together with the concentration camps,
was the foundation for a lasting nmity between Boer and British. The Boers themselves sometimes
burned the farms of their countrymen when they supported, or failed to oppose, the British.
The reasons for the British burning of Boer farms were numerous and changed over the period of
the war. At first private property was protected unless, in the words of the Hague Convention of
1899, its destruction or confiscation was imperatively demanded by the necessities of war. During the
advance from Bloemfontein it was said, perhaps correctly, that the white flag, indicating surrender or
neutrality, had been shown from farms from which subsequently the
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