"Concentration camp" redirects here. For specific contexts see Nazi concentration camps (World War II) and British concentration camps (Boer War).
For lists of camps and information on internment actions by country, see List of concentration and internment camps.
Boer women and children in a British-run concentration camp in South Africa (1900–1902)
Internment is the imprisonment or confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. Collins English dictionary defines internment as "the act of interning or state of being interned, esp of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects".[2] Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventative confinement rather than confinement after having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities.[3]
Interned persons may be held at prisons or at facilities known as internment camps. In certain contexts, these may be known, either officially or pejoratively, as concentration camps.
Internment also refers to the practice of neutral countries in time of war in detaining belligerent armed forces and equipment in their territories under the Hague Convention of 1907.[4]
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights restricts the use of internment. Article 9 states that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile."[5]
Contents
- 1 History of internment and the term "concentration camp"
- 2 See also
- 3 References
- 4 External links
History of internment and the term "concentration camp"
Main article: List of concentration and internment camps
Ten thousand inmates were kept in El Agheila, an Italian concentration camps in Libya during the Italian colonization of Libya
Jewish slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, 16 April 1945. Second row, seventh from left is Elie Wiesel.
Early civilizations such as Assyria used forced resettlement of populations as a means of controlling territory,[6] but it was not until much later in the late 19th and 20th centuries that records exist of groups of civilian non-combatants being concentrated into large prison camps.
The American Heritage Dictionary defines the term "Concentration camp" as: "A camp where persons are confined, usually without hearings and typically under harsh conditions, often as a result of their membership in a group the government has identified as suspect."[7]
The Polish historian Władysław Konopczyński has suggested that concentration camps originated in Poland during the Bar Confederation rebellion (1768–1772), when the Russian Empire established three camps for Polish rebel captives awaiting deportation to Siberia.[8]
The English term originated in the reconcentrados (reconcentration camps) set up by the Spanish military in Cuba during the Ten Years' War (1868–1878), Cuban War for Independence (1895–1898), and by the United States during the Philippine–American War (1899–1902).[9]
The term "concentration camp" saw wider use during the Second Boer War (1899–1902), when the British operated such camps in South Africa for interning Boers.[9][10] They built a total of 45 tented camps for Boer internees and 64 for black Africans. Of the 28,000 Boer men captured as prisoners of war, the British sent 25,630 overseas. The vast majority of Boers remaining in the local camps were women and children,[11] over 26,000 of whom died there.[11][12] During the 20th century, the arbitrary internment of civilians by the state reached a climax with Nazi concentration camps (1933–1945). As a result, the term "concentration camp" today carries many of the connotations of "extermination camp" (or "death camp").
See also
- Civilian Internee
- Extrajudicial detention
- Gulag
- Labor camps
- New Village
- Prisoner-of-war camp
- Prison overcrowding
- Quasi-criminal
- Remand
References
- ^ per Oxford Universal Dictionary, 1st edition 1933.
- ^ internment. (n.d.). Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition. Retrieved November 03, 2014, from Dictionary.com website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/internment
- ^ Euphemisms, Concentration Camps And The Japanese Internment
- ^ "The Second Hague Convention, 1907". Yale.edu. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 9, United Nations
- ^ "Laws of Hammurabi". Eawc.evansville.edu. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ "Concentration camp". American Heritage Dictionary. Retrieved 22 July 2014.
- ^ Konopczyński, Władysław. (1991), Konfederacja barska, t. II, pp. 733–734.
- ^ a b "Concentration Camp". The Columbia Encyclopedia (Sixth ed.). Columbia University Press. 2008.
- ^ "Documents re camps in Boer War". sul.stanford.edu.
- ^ a b Meredith, Martin (2007). Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa (First ed.). New York: PublicAffairs. pp. 452–456. ISBN 978-1586484736.
- ^ Knight, Ian (2000). Boer Wars (2): 1898–1902. Men-at-Arms (303). Oxford: Osprey Publishing. p. 40. ISBN 978-1855326132.
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