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	There is a new post on Opinio Juris.  You can read it at:

http://www.opiniojuris.org/posts/1171900979.shtml

It begins:

	Today is the anniversary of a shameful event in US
	history: the 1942 signing of Executive Order 9066,
	authorizing the internment of German-, Italian- and
	Japanese-Americans during World War II. Two House
	Representatives from California, Xavier Becerra and
	Dan Lundgren are today introducing a bill in
	Congress to bring attention and some small amount
	of justice to the survivors of a group of Latin
	American Japanese who were also detained by under
	that Order. I was completely unaware of this
	stunning aspect of the internment programs of the
	US government -- which included forcible removals
	of nationals and residents of Latin...