wartime internment
Civilian mass imprisonment
Wartime internment is the government detention of civilians during armed conflict, typically targeting ethnic groups perceived as security threats.
The term most often refers to the U.S. imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II: My grandmother spent three years in wartime internment.
The practice has been widely condemned as a violation of civil liberties.
- guard towersElevated defensive observation structures
- Geneva ConventionsWartime humanitarian treaties
- Executive Order 9066Wartime internment authorization decree
- collective memoryCommunity's shared historical recall
- ethnic discriminationPrejudice based on origin
behind barbed wire · human rights violations · forced displacement · reconciliation efforts · never again · social stigma · martial law · racial profiling · civil liberties · rationing systems · Manzanar · refugee status · loyalty oaths · barbed wire · enemy aliens · war crimes tribunals · family separation · camp survivors
wartime internmentcriminal conviction
Legal determination of guilt
due process · habeas corpus · presumption of innocence · constitutional protection
wartime internmentfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · free movement · liberation · release · emancipation
wartime internmentequal treatment
Uniform handling regardless of identity
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