internment camp

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Beyond those killed, thousands more were left homeless and living in a hastily constructed internment camp.

From Seattle Times

His family was among the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans forced from their homes and into government-run internment camps at the start of World War II.

From BBC

Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses including forced labor and having placed 1 million or more Uyghurs - a mainly Muslim ethnic group - in internment camps in Xinjiang.

From Reuters

Rights groups accuse Beijing of abuses against mainly Muslim Uyghurs in the western region of Xinjiang, including the mass use of forced labour in internment camps.

From Reuters

It was there that he developed his checkerboard model, examining the interactions among various groups at the internment camps: the “clannish” Nisei; children of Japanese immigrants; more reclusive detainees; and camp administrators.

From New York Times