‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site
by Andrew Buncombe in Seattle from on (#6BH5A)
About 13,000 people were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the sacred' place
Paul Tomita was just four when his family was interned. He was too young to remember Franklin D Roosevelt, then president, issuing the executive order that saw him and at least 125,000 others of Asian descent packed onto blacked-out trains and sent to prison camps during the second world war.
But his memories come alive when he recalls the hard, clattering train filled with fear and anxiety.
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