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Today marks 79years since the #Aardakh Genocide also known as— Operation Lentil. This is when Stalin ordered the deportation of the entire Chechen and Ingush populations. #Chechnya #Ichkeria 🧵 #russiancolonialism #russiaisaterroriststate 
During WWII, Stalin became suspicious of the Chechen population because the Germans got within a close margin of the Western mountainous region of the North Caucasus and suspected the Chechens of colluding with the Nazis— even though many were fighting on behalf of the Red Army.
This fact was irrelevant. Stalin decide they were all Nazis and must be destroyed.
Since 1918 Feb 23rd was a day to celebrate the Red Army— knowing this, the Soviets used this day to trick the Chechens.
Since 1918 Feb 23rd was a day to celebrate the Red Army— knowing this, the Soviets used this day to trick the Chechens.
Today is 80th anniv of the US exec order that incarcerated my whole family & 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent. THIS WK, I was shocked to discover that a BIPOC equity-focused critical scholar didn't know ab Japanese American resistance & reparations. A 🧵... 1/
As a kid every yr, thx to my mom, I taught my class ab WWII incarceration of JAs bc it was never in the curriculum. This is my dad & his parents on the CO River Indian Reservation in AZ, aka the Poston camp. Their smiles belie the racist injustice that devastated their lives. 2/
But there was a WHOLE ASS resistance & redress mvmt that (apparently) many don't know ab - led by young JAs.
No-No boys & Tule Lake incarcerees resisted during the war, Gordon Hirabayashi (a student @UW!), Mitsuye Endo & others sent cases to SCOTUS. 2/ densho.org/catalyst/mitsu…
No-No boys & Tule Lake incarcerees resisted during the war, Gordon Hirabayashi (a student @UW!), Mitsuye Endo & others sent cases to SCOTUS. 2/ densho.org/catalyst/mitsu…
🧵Eighty years ago today, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, setting in motion the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry during WWII. Three of those 120,000 were Min Imamura, Chiyoko Omachi, and Kaz Ideno. #DayofRemembrance uprooted.jasc-chicago.org
Min, Chiyoko, and Kaz were uprooted from their homes in California and imprisoned in camps located in remote deserts and swamps. Armed guards, watch towers, and barbed wire surrounded them.
During the war years, the government banned Japanese Americans from returning home to the West Coast. Instead, they were instructed to resettle across the Midwest and East Coast. Min, Chiyoko, and Kazuo were part of a wave of 20,000 Japanese Americans who ended up in Chicago.
Yesterday was the #DayofRemembrance—February 19, the anniversary of FDR’s signing of EO9066, which consigned over 100,000 Japanese Americans to incarceration for the duration of WWII.
I wanted to share a brief tour of a memorial to those who were its victims.
I wanted to share a brief tour of a memorial to those who were its victims.
One of the more memorable photos from that episode is this one, of the first community to be “evacuated” to Manzanar, from Bainbridge Island, WA. These are the “evacuees” being loaded onto a ferry under armed guard on March 30, 1942.
You can go to the site of this tragedy today and see a memorial to the event, dedicated to those who were removed summarily from their homes on the orders of an Army general. Bainbridge is a 30-minute ferry ride from downtown Seattle. The memorial is just outside the town.
For #DayofRemembrance, I looked up these five days in my mother’s diary. She was 13 years old:
Tuesday, February 17 (War)
Cold. Parents are worried to go away from Puget Sound Region. Mrs. Young came to Washington.
Cold. Parents are worried to go away from Puget Sound Region. Mrs. Young came to Washington.
Wednesday, February 18 (War yet)
Frost. Cold. A happy school day. Had a air raid practice.
Frost. Cold. A happy school day. Had a air raid practice.
Today in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, under which nearly 75,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were taken into custody. Another 45,000 Japanese nationals living in the United States were also incarcerated.
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#DayOfRemembrance
Americans of Japanese ancestry & Japanese nationals living on the Pacific Coast and in southern Arizona were ordered to register & report to temporary detention centers. Evacuees were allowed to bring only what they could carry. #DayOfRemembrance
Iku Tsuchiya used this suitcase.
Iku Tsuchiya used this suitcase.
Evacuees had only days to dispose of businesses, homes, cars, and pets—which they sold at rock-bottom prices, gave away, or left behind.
Many of their homes were neglected or vandalized: s.si.edu/3k37noU
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Many of their homes were neglected or vandalized: s.si.edu/3k37noU
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Today, February 19th, is a Day of Remembrance. On this day, in 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the evacuation and internment of Japanese Americans along the West Coast of the United States. /1
More than 120,000 people, two-thirds of us American citizens, were rounded up, removed at gunpoint from our homes, and incarcerated for years behind barbed wire fences in ten different camps, without trial or due process. /2
We mark this day to say both "Never Forget" and "Never Again." I have spent my life trying to ensure that we learn from this dark chapter of our shared history. /3
THREAD: Today, Feb. 19, is the anniversary of #EO9066, FDR's executive order that authorized the mass roundup and incarceration of Japanese Americans--including my family.
Across the country, Japanese Americans commemorate this as the #DayOfRemembrance. /1
Across the country, Japanese Americans commemorate this as the #DayOfRemembrance. /1
To read about how #EO9066 impacted my own family, you can read this piece that I wrote in 2017 for the Smithsonian @amhistorymuseum. /2 americanhistory.si.edu/blog/carl-take…
And to understand why the Supreme Court's 2018 repudiation of the infamous Korematsu case -- in the midst of upholding Trump's Muslim Ban -- gives me no comfort today, you can read what I wrote on that topic two years ago. /3 aclu.org/blog/immigrant…
77 years ago the US made the wrong decision to imprison our friends and neighbors. Japanese-Americans, who, let’s be clear – were American citizens – were turned into “the other” through fear and mistrust. #DayofRemembrance
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We will never forget the unjustified internment of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans on Bainbridge Island and throughout WA. They had less than a week to leave their entire lives and report to detention centers. We must ensure this never happens again, to anyone.
Today we face another dangerous rise of nationalism and discrimination in our nation. Making immigrants and refugees “the other” is a tool of xenophobia, fear and hatred. We must fight that wherever and whenever we can. Never again can we repeat these dark mistakes of our past.
Today is the day we call #DayofRemembrance, to commemorate the day 77 years ago that defined my life. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which imprisoned my family and me simply because we looked like the people that bombed Pearl Harbor.
I remember the barbed-wire fence that confined me for four years from ages 5 to 8. I have memories of sentry towers with machine guns pointed at me. I remember the searchlights that followed me when I made the night runs from my barrack to the latrine.
It is Executive Order 9066 that made me a social and political activist dedicated to preventing such miscarriages of justice ever again. Roosevelt was a great President. But he was also a fallible human. A great President can also make great mistakes.
"Most evangelicals appealed the 'doctrine' of the spirituality of the church to justify their inaction and indifference to the suffering of their fellow Christian brothers and sisters."
A couple years old, but new to me. @MosesYLee @TheWitnessBCC
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A couple years old, but new to me. @MosesYLee @TheWitnessBCC
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"Various nativist groups celebrated the decision and most evangelicals voiced indifference to their plight by appealing to the 'doctrine' of the spirituality of the church. They argued that the church had no ethical responsibility to intervene on behalf of Japanese American...
Christians, because this was a matter of the state, not a spiritual one.
Case in point, some Arkansas Southern Baptists rejoiced at the opportunity of the nations coming into their backyard when it was announced that a internment camp would be built in the State of Arkansas...
Case in point, some Arkansas Southern Baptists rejoiced at the opportunity of the nations coming into their backyard when it was announced that a internment camp would be built in the State of Arkansas...
77 years ago, FDR signed #EO9066, which authorized the incarceration of 120k Americans of Japanese ancestry in “relocation camps” in the West & Arkansas. #DayOfRemembrance
Race baiting flyers like this one from Theodore Geisel - the one & only Dr. Seuss - helped lead to the uprooting of Americans simply because their ethnicity made them suspicious. #DayOfRemembrance
Many Japanese Americans had less than 48 hours to pack what they could, & sell the rest of their possessions to neighbors who gladly only paid them 25¢ on the dollar - if that. What would you have packed? Or sold without knowing what the future held?
THREAD: It’s both profoundly offensive and oddly appropriate that the Center for Immigration Studies (widely known as a racist, anti-immigrant org) picked this week to launch a PR effort claiming that family detention doesn’t cause suffering or deprive anyone of civil rights. /1
The timing of CIS’s effort to whitewash family detention is especially offensive because today, Feb. 19, is the #DayOfRemembrance, when Japanese Americans mark the anniversary of #EO9066, the executive order authorizing the mass roundup and detention of Japanese Americans. /2
Yet this timing is also oddly appropriate, because CIS’s pro-family-detention rhetoric so closely echoes WWII propaganda justifying the roundup and incarceration of my community. /3
Today in 1942 President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, under which nearly 75,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry were taken into custody. Another 45,000 Japanese nationals living in the United States were also incarcerated. #DayOfRemembrance #EO9066
#EO9066 was issued ten weeks after Pearl Harbor. Toku Shimomura of Seattle described the news of the attack in her diary, writing “Our future has become gloomy. I pray that God will stay with us.” #DayOfRemembrance
Three months after Pearl Harbor, Americans of Japanese ancestry and Japanese nationals living on the Pacific Coast and in southern Arizona were ordered to register and then report within a week to hastily designated temporary detention centers. #EO9066 #DayOfRemembrance
