internment
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In 1942 he entered one of the government’s Japanese internment camps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 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
I’m not sure I knew internment had happened, or understood its scale, before I reached adulthood.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
He was detained in the early 1970s when the government in Northern Ireland introduced internment without trial for those suspected of paramilitary involvement.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025
I wanted to declare myself in some different way, and—old enough to be marked by the internment but still too young for the full impact of it to cow me—I wanted in.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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