These peculiar mixtures of liberties and restrictions give the internment a surreal cast.
"Given the fact that the international press knows the identity of these main perpetrators, Mr Ahern, should reconsider the reintroduction of internment to lock these animals up".
It is a sorry tale which includes description of internment camps in France but also of welcome given by Latin American countries, of struggle to keep a government in exile and of eventual return.
Older Japanese-Americans said that time has given the latest generations distancing from the traumatizing effects of the internment and a clean slate.
He recalled how, early in the war, his family was given three days to leave their home in Southern California or face internment.
It is meant to honor those whose lives were so overturned, explain how the internment happened, give some sense of camp life and suggest lessons for the future.
He was sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man and, soon after, was given the option of being deported to Canada.
Using the moral authority it had won by confronting both apartheid and communism, it challenged Western governments whenever they seemed to be cutting legal corners; in that spirit, it opposed Britain's policy of internment in Northern Ireland.But these days America does seem to have a strangely high priority, given the enormity of human-rights scandals elsewhere.
Born in California, Ms. Yamamoto and her family, along with other Japanese-Americans, were given three days to pack whatever they could carry after World War II broke out and herded into a barracks-style internment camp in the desert of Topaz, Utah.
He says he has been told he can apply for one in 2004, but has been given no indication whether it will be successful.Mr Sun reckons it will take months to repair the damage inflicted on his business by his six-month internment.
