[vlunkr]

Honestly, I'm not sure I remember this coming up in my high school education, we sort of just pretend it didn't happen. We talked extensively about other inhumane things our country has done, but the Japanese internment is just something my dad probably told me about, being sort of a WW2 buff. I think the fact that we don't talk about it makes it even a little more disturbing.

[lostlogin]

Sometimes events are a little too recent or close to home for some to talk about and this seems to exacerbate things. Down here in New Zealand a WW2 POW camp was established and during some a period of unrest New Zealand guards shot and killed 46 Japanese prisoners. More recently someone ripped out trees that were planted to commemorate the atrocity.

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/massacre-at-featherston/

http://i.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/65751556/pow-deaths-...