It is true that the British operated internment camps during the Boer War of 1899, but we didn't invent the concept. It seems our contribution in that area was to coin the name "concentration camp". Maybe that's what the person in the OP was alluding to?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
