Boer War and a movie on it

I saw a movie last weekend that was called "Breaker Morant."  It is the true story of Australians who fought in the Boer War in South Africa.  They fought on the side of the British against the South Africans.
The policy of the British high command was not to take prisoners but to kill them.  At some point it was to the advantage of the high command to bring to trial certain officers and accuse them of murdering the prisoners.   -Messenger ECP:  Community, p. 247   (Naturally the British in reality did both take a lot of prisoners and also do otherwise; see below.   -R)
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"There is an understanding out here among all our Soldiers that no prisoners are to be taken, if it can be possibly helped."   -diary entry at 6-27-1900 of a British soldier in Boer War, in Stephen Miller:  Volunteers on the Veld, 2007, p. 129
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Jan Smuts in January 1902 report:  "Lord Kitchener has begun to carry out a policy in both (Boer) republics of unbelievable barbarism and gruesomeness...bringing the pressure of war against defenseless women and children."   http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p14_Weber.html
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"Orders in this district from Lord Kitchener....the word has been passed round privately that no prisoners are to be taken.  That is, all the men found fighting are to be shot."  -letter by a British officer in the Boer field read out by John Dillon, Irish nationalist member of Parliament, on 2-26-1901.  He also had several other letters in the same theme.  http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p14_Weber.html
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A crusading 41-year-old English spinster, Emily Hobhouse, visited the South Africa camps and, armed with this first-hand knowledge, alerted the world to their horrors. She told of internees "... deprived of clothes ... the semi-starvation in the camps ... the fever-stricken children lying... upon the bare earth ... the appalling mortality." 
Emily Hobhouse                                            http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v18/v18n3p14_Weber.html