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internment
[ in-turn-muhnt ]
noun
- an act or instance of interning, or confining a person or ship to prescribed limits during wartime:
the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
- the state of being interned; confinement.
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It's the law that President Franklin Roosevelt used to justify the Japanese internment, the darkest moment of his otherwise illustrious presidency.
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.
Trump has promised to build internment camps for undocumented immigrants he has declared war against.
Furutani said he didn’t even know there had been internment camps until he went to college.
Rounding them by the millions and dumping them in internment camps would bring our economy to its knees.
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