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Brandon Suglyama, co-director of the Aslan Paciflc-American Student Union, spoke to students About the
internment of Japanese Americans during the second World War. Passers-by were given little white tags
similar to those worn by internment victims, to be worn all day as a show of support
APASU remembers internment
Kaly Soto
Members of the Asian/Pm ifi<
American Student Union criti
cized the exclusion of informa
tion about Japanese internment
camps from history ixxiks during
a demonstration in the EMU
Courtyard Monday.
Seven members of APASIJ
donned UMOs-era clothing, car
ried suitcases and marched from
the bookstore to the courtyard in
memory of the approximately
12().(HX) Japanese Americans who
were interned in camps during
the second World War.
When they reached the court
yard. participants stood behind
chicken wire and told the small
audience how internment had
affected their lives.
" This is not a protest,” said
Bminion Sugiyaiua, thu APASl's
co-director "Today is a nation
al day of rermimbnint i- My moth
er and father ami my grandpar
ents were interned. 1 did not read
about their internment in histo
ry Ixxiks I heard nlxnit it at home.
Mv father told stories about grow
ing up behind barbed wire."
Stephen Muraoka, a ret ent
graduate of the University and a
participant in the demonstration,
said lie hoped that it would have
a positive impact on those pass
ing by.
"I don’t want to pass this off as
just another demonstration or
protest I think it (internment|
is one of the most important
events in Asian-Ament an histo
ry." muraoka said. "It’s not in the
history books and I think that is
just awful "
Sw»;i % .him ind t u duet tnr i*'!:
Ilerada stressed the itnjioriam e
of edui aling lhn public about
what iterada called "one of the
gravest injustices in the history
of civil rights in Ament an histo
ry.”
Iterada said many Japanese
Anieric am who were interned
keep tile experience to them
selves bm a use they consider it a
source of shame
"It's hard because older people
don't like to talk about it. ' she
said. I t an talk to my aunt and
my uncle about it bet a use they
are younger "
On Feh 19. t‘Mi, President
Roosevelt sigmwl Executive Order
9066 The order was later usetl
to force (apanese Ameriuins into
10 major internment camps
across the country
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