Essay - War & Human Rights Abuse: Parallelisms Between Japanese Americans in...

War & Human Rights Abuse: Parallelisms between Japanese Americans in WWII and the US-Iraq War (Gulf War II)

Among nations of varying cultures and societies, maintaining satisfactory political relations is a challenge. This is primarily due to differences among leaders ***** societies that make up this nation; thus, as a result of ***** diversity, it is inevit*****ble that international relations among countries of the world may experience conflicts and antagonism with each other.

***** of war are one manifestation of conflicts and disagreements between two or more nations. Examples ***** these political conflicts are the First and Second World Wars, where devastation of the physical geography of ***** and millions of deaths had occurred. Human history has, over time, illustrated how individual differences can potentially lead to bigger conflicts, *****reby resulting to devastating, even deadly, results.

However, a far more important issue ***** should be focused on during times of war and political conflict is the welfare of human society in general—where people experience human rights abuse simply because they are members of a society or culture perceived *****s "the enemy" ***** the antagonist in the game of war. This paper discussed ***** analyzes ***** ***** of human rights abuse and the call for civil liberty in the context of World War ***** and ***** War II (US-Iraq War). This paper posits that throughout his*****ry, intolerance to group ***** has led to ***** occurrence ***** human rights abuse, citing in particular the *****s aga*****st ***** Ameri*****s ***** Iraq prisoners by ***** United States military during WWII and Gulf War II, respectively.

***** States has been accused ***** the international political community of committing crimes and human rights abuses against its prisoners-*****-war (POWs) and ********** and individuals it considers enemy or 'hostile agents' of the society. A case in point is ***** alleged d*****crimination of the US government against the Japanese *****mericans during WWII, where then President Franklin Roosevelt, in February 1942, signed the Executive Order 9066. EO ***** covers the establishment of internment camps in particular states ***** ***** country, ***** Japanese Americans are auth*****ized ***** move out of their residences and asked to be detained in these internment *****. This order, according to *****, seeks to provide "regulations ***** the conduct and control of alien enemies, except as such duty and responsibility is superseded by the designation of military *****as..."

Despite the neutral nature of the executive *****, such as the prov*****ion ***** the essential needs of Japanese Americans in the internment camps, many have expressed outrage because ***** ***** unfair treatment given to them, primarily because Japan was *****'s enemy during the time of war. Fred Korematsu, in a case to ***** Supreme Court ***** 1944, ***** expressed outrage at his imprisonment for 5 years because he was unable to comply with the President's order ***** report to an assembly center when the order ***** enacted. Because ***** his non-compliance, he was tried and imprisoned for 5 years, and l*****er transferred ***** an internment camp after his parole.