second international festival organized within the framework of the national project culture maxima akhmedov dmitryansky news from astrakhan our broadcast continues with another program from the world in the palm of your hand. you know the brutality of the british during the anglo-boer war in africa at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries and about the current non -cooperative relations of great britain with the countries of the commonwealth of nations. on september 10, 1899, the minister of the british colony, joseph chamberlain, demanded that the president of the south african republic of the transvaal paul kruger grant voting rights to all europeans who had lived in the republic for at least 5 years, the boers took chamberlain's ultimatum as a declaration of war and on october 11 their troops crossed the borders of the english colonies of the cape and natal so began the anglo-boer war, which is considered one of the most inhumane and bloody in the history of great britain republics, in general, who are the boers in the middle of the 17th century, when a in europe, uh, the thirty years war raged,