Earlier the Brits had devised "concentration camps" where they placed Boor women, children and elderly people ~ I gather the idea was to hold them hostage until the men gave up.
What happened is just this side of Hades ~ as had happened earlier when the Brits put the Acadian settlers on board prison barges tens of thousands of innocent people died in the camps ~ of disease, of mistreatment, of whatever it is that happens to people kept in miserable conditions with bad food and no modern medicine or toilet facilities.
The Brits invented and practiced genocide against Acadians and Boors long before the Nazis started doing the same.
The Ottomans did something equally evil ~ they "transported" millions of men, women and children on foot through desolate countryside over inadequate roads and paths without food, water, normal civilized comforts and so forth.
When that happens people die in great numbers and all military commanders know it.
In brief, to bring you all up to date on the "Theory and Practice of Hell" you can kill vast numbers of innocent people by taking them out of their homes and setting them in miserable camps. You can kill vast numbers of innocent people by putting them on the road on foot for hundreds of miles.
There are other methods. Those two are apparently the least costly.
Some of my Scottish ancestors were put on board prison barges, transported to America, and dumped into Smugglers Creek just off the Potomac River ~ they were naked and still in chains at the end of the trip. Most of their fellows had died on the way.
That was circa 1702.
The Brits breought a lot of evil and suffering into the world.
At the same time, they gave us our political system.
But the Armenian genocide - which ALSO included attackes on Greeks and Chaldean and Assyrian Christians was despicable and the Turks, if they were honest, would disavow the actions of the pre-Atturk Muslims - but, being Muslims, in their heart of hearts, approved.
It seems that only Germany has apologized for the actions of former governments in genocide, the Turks - and the Japanese - have yet to step up to the plate and do so - as well as the Russians for the Ukrainian genocide.