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camp" redirects here. For specific contexts see Nazi
concentration camps (World War II) and British concentration
camps (Boer War). For lists of camps and information on
internment actions by country, see List of concentration and
internment camps.  Internment is the imprisonment or
confinement[1] of people, commonly in large groups, without
trial. Collins English dictionary defines internment as "the act
of interning or state of being interned, esp of enemy citizens
in wartime or of terrorism suspects".[2] Thus, while it can
simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventative
confinement rather than confinement after having been convicted
of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and
political sensitivities.[3]  Interned persons may be held at
prisons, or at facilities known as internment camps. In certain
contexts these may be known, either officially or pejoratively,