Petitie #217: acknowledge moral responsibility

Petitie #217: acknowledge moral responsibility

Excellency,

Recently an interesting discovery was made in Denver, the United States. According to the Japan Times: “letters arriving from Japanese-Americans internment camps during World War Two were discovered during renovations.” Internees sent letters and postcards to a Denver pharmacy owned by Japanese-Americans requesting them to send bath powder, cold creams or cough drops. About 110,000 Japanese-Americans were interned during the war. The camps were overcrowded and provided poor living conditions. However the internees were able to correspond with the outside world requesting “luxuries”. The conditions in the Dutch camps during World War Two were far worse. In fact these were concentration camps run by the Japanese military in occupied Dutch East Indies. The Dutch people were held in these concentration camps with the sole purpose to destroy the Dutch influence in Dutch East Indies. They were terrorized, denied medicines and provided with poor food. Many died. The survivors were left with traumas, poor futures and as a result of the captivity lost but all.  (meer…)