internment
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In California, language related to the internment of Japanese Americans at the Manzanar National Historic Site, as well as the history of Indigenous people in Death Valley and Muir Woods came under scrutiny.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2026
Before their internment, most of them came from poverty or jail before being enticed, or tricked, into fighting for Russia as mercenaries or on the promise of release from prison.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
The overt racism and grotesque unfairness of Japanese-American internment eventually provoked some degree of societal reckoning, if only years later.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
An extract was handed to Mr Adams, in which it was written that a senior IRA member from Belfast had been released from internment to participate.
From BBC • May 6, 2025
Gertie Hornbostel and the other prisoners at the Santo Tomas internment camp are desperate for news.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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