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A '''concentration camp''' is a generally brutal type of camp that has inmates that are generally persecuted and [[Slavery|enslaved]]. Most are either because of race, ethnicity, or sexuality. Just as many will be put in a concentration camp due to not following a government rule or being a prisoner of war (POW). Sometimes they are also known as '''labor camps''', '''internment camps''', or '''prison camps'''.

*The infamous Gulags used by the Soviet Union are considered to be a type of concentration camp. The Gulag system was first set up by [[Vladimir Lenin]] and reached its peak during [[Joseph Stalin]]'s rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s. The Gulag camps were administered at first by the [[Cheka]], and later the [[NKVD]]. As a result, a lot of people were forced to suffer in cold weather.

*Concentration camps were operated by the government of Guatemala during the [[Civil War|civil war]] from 1960 to 1996. They were used most often during the regimes of [[Efraín Ríos Montt]] (1982 - 1983) and [[Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores]] (1983 - 1986), and were used mostly to incarcerate the indigenous Mayan population, which was being targeted by the ongoing [[Guatemalan Genocide|genocidal campaign against the Maya]] in the country.  

*During [[World War I]], internment camps were set up, mostly for Serbs and other pro-Kingdom of Serbia supporters; the radical pan-Serbian [[Black Hand]] having played a role in the [[assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand]] resulting in the outbreak of World War I. Citizens deemed enemies of the state were displaced from their homes and sent to camps throughout the Austria-Hungary Empire, to places such as Doboj (46,000), Arad, Győr and Neusiedl am See.

*The [[State Peace and Development Council]] made use of concentration camps during its rule of Burma from 1988 to 2011, particularly during [[Than Shwe]]'s leadership.

*In Mexico, the [[Los Zetas]] cartel used a concentration camp to undo its victims, where it is presumed that it killed 200 people.

*The [[ZANU-PF]] party operated concentration camps for Ndebele people during the ''[[Gukurahundi]]''.

*During the [[Mau Mau Uprising]], British authorities in Kenya took many Kenyan civilians to concentration camps, where many were tortured or sexually abused.

*The [[Ustaše]] used concentration camps throughout Croatia to [[Serbian Genocide|exterminate Serbs, Jews and Gypsies]]. Something that made the Ustaše particularly infamous was the creation of concentration camps exclusively for children. The most well-known Ustaše camp was [[Jasenovac concentration camp]].

*[[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] made use of concentration camps during his tenure as President of Egypt, mostly imprisoning [[Muslim Brotherhood]] members.

*[[Donald Trump]]'s administration detained migrants attempting to enter the United States at the United States–Mexico border in detention facilities that have been described as concentration camps. Government reports from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General in May 2019 and July 2019 found that migrants had been detained under conditions that failed federal standards. These conditions have included prolonged detention, overcrowding, and poor hygiene and food standards. Though some organizations have tried to resist the "concentration camp" label for these facilities, hundreds of Holocaust and genocide scholars rejected this resistance via an open letter addressed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.