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 PUBLIC LAW 100-383—AUG. 10, 1988

102 STAT. 903

Public Law 100-383 100th Congress

An Act To implement recomn^ndations of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.

Aug. 10. 1988 [H.R. 442]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Human rights. United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. PURPOSES.

50 USC app. 1989.

The purposes of this Act are to— (1) acknowledge the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and mternment of United States citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry during World War II; (2) apologize on behalf of the people of the United States for the evacuation, relocation, and internment of such citizens and permanent resident aliens; (3) provide for a public education fund to finance efforts to Public inform the public about the internment of such individuals so as information. to prevent the recurrence of any similar event; (4) make restitution to those individuals of Japanese ancestry who were interned; (5) make restitution to Aleut residents of the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Isleuids west of Unimak Island, in settlement of United States obligations in equity and at law, for— (A) injustices suffered and unreasonable hardships endured while those Aleut residents were under United States control during World War 11; (B) personal property taken or destroyed by United States Real property. forces during World War II; (C) community property, including community church property, taken or destroyed by United States forces during World War H; and (D) traditional vlQage lands on Attu Island not rehabilitated after World War II for Aleut occupation or other productive use; (6) discourage the occurrence of similar injustices and violations of civil liberties in the future; and (7) make more credible and sincere any declaration of concern by the United States over violations of human rights committed by other nations. SEC. 2. STATEMENT OF THE CONGRESS. (a) WITH REGARD TO INDIVIDUALS OF JAPANESE ANCESTRY.—The

Congress recognizes that, as described by the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, a grave injustice was done to both citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry by the evacuation, relocation, and internment of civilians during World War 11. As the Commission documents, these actions were carried out without adequate security reasons and without any acts of espionage or sabotage documented by the Commission, and were motivated largely by racial prejudice, wartime hysteria, and a

50 USC app. 1989a.

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