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Andrew Buncombe in Seattle

‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site

Huts at the Minidoka war relocation center in the Magic Valley, Jerome county, Idaho, on 4 November 1942.
Huts at the Minidoka war relocation center in the Magic Valley, Jerome county, Idaho, on 4 November 1942. Photograph: Bettmann/Getty Images

Paul Tomita was just four when his family was interned. He was too young to remember Franklin D Roosevelt, then president, issuing the executive order that saw him and at least 125,000 others of Asian descent packed onto blacked-out trains and sent to prison camps during the second world war.

But his memories come alive when he recalls the hard, clattering train filled with fear and anxiety.

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