Opinion Paper On They Called Us Enemy By George Takei

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Opinion paper
They Called Us Enemy
By: Quinn Donald

On December 7 1941 Japan bombed pearl harbor involving the US in World War 2. On February 19 1942 all people of Japanese descent were put into camps because the U.S. thought any Japanese person could be a spy. In the book They Called Us Enemy the main character George Takei is taken to one of the camps. By doing this the U.S. violated many human rights. What the U.S. did was very wrong.

The United Nations’s Universal Declaration Of Human Rights states that “Everyone is entitled to their rights no matter their gender, race, religion or political status”. In my book, they are taken to these camps because they were are Japanese. By doing this the United States violated Article 2 of the UDHR.