An estimated 22,000 women and children, for example, are supposed to have lived on the outskirts of the Hankah camp near Abū Za'bal. Ultimately, however, and mainly for health reasons, this practice was stopped, the shanty-towns appended to the camps were dismantled, and strict regulations were enforced preventing the soldiers from having access to their families.

XREF: Builds on the authoritarian-control theme from loc 486 (bureaucratic inscription) and the camp-isolation claim at loc 123. Builds on: "Military camps isolated recruits and imposed separate legal codes."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 628