If the United States quietly permits Guantánamo to become an internment camp for citizens of Yemen - a single, conspicuously less powerful nation - it will do lasting damage to regional human rights standards.
But when we dig deeper into the historical record, the racial animosity and rights violations that plagued the WWII internment program become clear.
But the Japanese-Americans felt they had something to prove, and several thousand of them did, leaving American internment camps to become volunteers, most notably in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
In 1944, Fisher again was required to become involved in the U.S. 1942-43 internment of Japanese Americans on the West Coast of the United States upon his return from Europe.
JULIE OTSUKA, on her novel about the internment of Japanese-Americans, which has become a popular text.
What made the situation of the Japanese in the United States more complicated is that while the Issei, forbidden to become naturalized, were classified as enemy aliens whose internment was legal, their American children, the Nisei, were citizens.
He was raised in working-class Huyton on the tough Bluebell council estate, which was developed from a Second World War internment camp and by the 1980s had not become notably more hospitable than it had been in wartime.
Having grown up in a U.S. internment camp, Takei says his father inspired him to become involved in the political system, which would eventually lead him to speak up on LGBT rights as well.
Mr. Bush also fulfilled his pledge today not to leave Democrats behind, naming Norman Y . Mineta a former congressman and a Japanese-American who was placed in an internment camp as a child during World War II, to become transportation secretary.
Guantánamo Bay had become an icon of illiberal and un-American injustice and Blair's own copycat internment policy was soon to be rejected by the House of Lords.
