internment
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Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses against Uyghurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority of around 10 million people in the western region of Xinjiang, including the mass use of forced labor in internment camps.
From Reuters
Army internment camp in Louisiana with other enemy aliens from the Axis powers of Japan, Germany and Italy during most of the war.
From Los Angeles Times
They said women and children were sent to a desert internment camp.
From Reuters
“His belief was that they were put in the internment camp because the United States was a scared country,” said his daughter Laura Rutizer.
From Los Angeles Times
When he was 12, his family was sent from their home in California to an internment camp in Jerome, Ark. They were given blankets, pillows, metal cots and not much else.
From Washington Post
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