internment

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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

Today, under the law of war, civilians are supposed to have protections, including against citizenship- or identity-based detentions or internment, as well as against forced repatriation.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2025

Mr Adams was detained in the early 1970s when the government in Northern Ireland introduced internment as violence spiralled in the early years of the Troubles.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025

The obelisk— built in 1943—and the gatehouses are all that have survived intact from internment days.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston