The 2,000 internees carried with them into the camp a substantial library that circulated from cubicle to cubicle, bunk to bunk, and was my first exposure to adult fiction – popular American bestsellers, Reader's Digest condensed books, Somerset Maugham and Sinclair Lewis, Steinbeck and HG Wells.
Dealing with international criticism, particularly from the US, that Britain was guilty of degrading treatment of internees, Mason ostentatiously insisted on the security forces using legitimate questioning methods.
(Uruguay has had another strong year, notching up a model election, impressive growth and a grown-up welcome to six internees from Guantánamo).
Most of the rest, known as "security internees", are civilians deemed to threaten security.
Indians believed Japanese assurances of support for their own cause of independence, though that was not to last.For the great mass of the Chinese population, the author makes clear, life during the occupation was far more brutal even than for the western internees in the Stanley concentration camp.
Mr Khan believes that 2,000-3,000 interemain.Amnestymnesty International, a human-rights group, found evidence of frequent torture, used over sustained periods, against those in custody.
Harry S. Truman signed the Evacuation Claims Act, which gave internees the opportunity to submit claims for property lost as a result of relocation.
Bank then traveled to China and French Indochina, where he was searching for Japanese prisoner of war camps and rescuing internees when the war ended.
When back in Rome, at Polybius' request, he managed to gain the somewhat grudging support of old Cato (whose son had married Scipio's sister Aemilia) for a proposal to release the 300 Achaean internees who still survived without trial.
Although there were a few isolated incidents of internees' being shot and killed, the camps generally were run humanely.
Then, on June 18 19, Syngman Rhee arranged for his military police to allow 27,000 Korean internees in their custody to "escape".
