Ocasio-Cortez defends comparing migrant detention centers to 'concentration camps'

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4. Actually, they originated just before the Boer war in Africa.

The Boer war was 1899 to 1902

US soldiers used them when they violently took over the Philippines in 1898, they killed as many of the natives as they could, esp. the men and boys over 10, put the remainder in concentration camps, forced the below 10 year old boys to go to American run boarding schools and learn American ways.
(they also used water boarding torture on Filipinos)

If that sounds familiar, it is because they did much the same thing to various tribes of American Indians, esp. the Plains tribes.

Source...James Bradley's book The Imperial Cruise, A secret History of Empire and War.
He wrote Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys.

Yes, to your point that Hitler's death camps have created the more infamous definition of concentration camp.