interment

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Yeah, the Japanese interment sucks, but I wonder what would have happened if there was no internment.

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the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

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noun

the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

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noun

the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave

See also: burial, entombment, inhumation, sepulture

Example sentences

Yeah, the Japanese interment sucks, but I wonder what would have happened if there was no internment.

" "Well you see they aren't interment camps...they were criminals anyways...how dare you compare a work camp to a death camp?

[...] “Stop being hysterical.”That reminds me of this quote from a fantasy novel:> "At Teidez's interment, he never missed a chance to pass some little comment on Iselle to any lord or provincar in earshot.

Without even touching on the interment camps, which are definitely worse than the US prison system; here is demonstrable evidence that the US cares more about global human rights than the Chinese.

I'm curious, because in my experience the American interment of Japanese is fairly well known among Americans and Japanese, and not well known by everyone else.

Mass interment, violence, rape, retaliation against one's family for political crimes, forced sterilization, etc.

And the Japanese interment camps were later officially repudiated by the government, and reparations were paid to the victimized families in the Reagan era.

> Yes, "interment camp" is a euphemism for "concentration camp", but to be fair at about the same time "concentration camp" become a euphemism for "death camp".And "concentration camp" is itself a euphemism for "prison camp".