Kitchener gave the order that Boers in Khaki could be treated as spies and shot.
He also signed the execution warrants for both Morant and Handcock and he was under no obligation to do so - he could have commuted their sentences as he commuted Wittons.
27 posted on 10/21/2011 6:11:09 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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