Why Japanese-Canadian Males were sent to Prison Camps in Petawawa and Angler ON

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Between March 24 and April 20, 1942 they were sent to the Immigration Building, Vancouver.

On April 20, they rioted.

They were deemed enemy aliens because they resisted relocation and rioted.

The sad thing is, the New Left movement NEVER acknowledges the imprisonment of Ukrainians during WW1, the Japanese-Canadian experience during WW2 and the Doukhabor experience in the 1950s.

Nor do they acknowledge the fact that New Orleans blacks displaced by Hurrican Katrina have been relocated to detainment camps throughout the US.

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In three days, my mourning period for March 24 to April 20 1942 begins.

This is reflected by the politically charged nature of my gandhara.blogspot.com posts.

After April 20, when he heard about the riot, the man in the following article showed the racism of the times:

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=1376

“Orientals should be excluded from Canada”
"We won’t have Japs in the province.”

Meanwhile in America:

Despite their attempts to prove their “Americanness,” both Nisei and Issei were targeted in the anti-Japanese hysteria that swept the country with the onset of World War II. West Coast agricultural interests, which had long sought to undercut Japanese immigrants’ success in farming through state exclusion laws, pressured the national government and local media to remove Japanese Americans because of their ostensible threat to national security. The military and federal government initially called for Japanese Americans to voluntarily relocate to the interior, but politicians such as Governor Chase Clark of Idaho vigorously opposed such a plan. Clark blocked California Japanese families from purchasing land in Idaho, and actively discouraged others from relocating. Yet Idaho would soon become “home” for 10,000 West Coast Japanese Americans removed from their real homes and sent to its Minidoka internment camp.

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Charles Clark came from a prominent politically connect Idaho family. They ran Idaho, pretty much. He prevented middle class Japanese familes from settling in Idaho. This is similar to the tactics that the Kelowna council practised when Japanese Canadians tried to move out of the relocation zone on the coast.

Why this is important today: discrimination and racism against Pakistanis, Bengalis, Indians, and other Muslims is ongoing in North America.

Tho in America, the TSA airport screeners are targetting anyone that offends them.

Then there are the Hispanics of Reading, PA who were discriminated against by election officials. http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/25/hispanic.voting/index.html

Why is this connected to my OP? Discrimination and racism is a common tactic of the majority to oppress minorities.

The real reason for Japanese internment during WW2 was to steal land and property of the Japanese, which occurred once the Japanese left for camp.

Many people profitted.

And I fear they plan to do the same to minorities they fear.

It's happening in Chechnya. It's happening in Toronto. It's even happening online (e.g. our reaction to the Tibetan atrocities).

It proves that at the root of racism is ignorance and fear.

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In three days, my mourning period for March 24 to April 20 1942 begins.


Donger, how will you mourn this historical travesty to your fellow Dongers in Canada?