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internment
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internment, in international law, detention of the nationals or property of an enemy or a belligerent. A belligerent will intern enemy merchant ships or take them as prize prize, in maritime law, the private property of an enemy that a belligerent captures at sea. For the capture of the vessel or cargo to be lawful it must be made outside neutral waters and by authority of the belligerent.
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, and a neutral should intern both belligerent ships that fail to leave its ports within a specified time and belligerent troops that enter its territory. The practice of detaining persons considered dangerous during a war is often called internment, even though they may not be enemy nationals. In World War II the United States detained persons of Japanese ancestry and German or Italian citizenship in relocation centers relocation center, in U.S. history, camp in which Japanese and Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. Fearing a Japanese invasion, the military leaders, under authority of an executive order, defined (Mar.
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. The Geneva Convention of 1949 on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War provides for the unrestricted departure of enemy aliens from the territory of a belligerent at the outbreak of conflict, and the humane treatment of those aliens who choose to remain.


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During the war, the Japanese-American enclave around Jefferson Park suffered a major disruption as many residents were rounded up by the government and sent off to the relocation camp of Manzanar in the Owens Valley.
Her uncle and grandfather are sent to a relocation camp in North Dakota while the rest of the family are held in California until they can be sent to Arizona.
Mas Okui, a retired Canoga Park High teacher, saw the same look as he stood at the podium talking about how he was taken out of school at age 10 and sent to the Manzanar relocation camp with his parents for 3 1/2 years.
 
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