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*[[Augusto Pinochet]] operated concentration camps during his tenure as the military dictator of Chile from 1973 to 1990. There were at least eighty in all, and most of them were converted soccer stadiums, hotels, or office buildings. Those that were primarily targeted included Communists, Leftists, homosexuals, indigenous peoples, and Catholics. The camps were run by [[DINA]], Pinochet's [[secret police]] who were renowned for their cruelty; torture and sexual violence was very prevalent and included things such as electrocution, [[Correctional Rape|correctional rape]], forced [[Bestiality|bestiality]], forced [[cannibalism]], and being burned alive via flamethrower, among other things.

*Concentration camps were used by the [[Khmer Rouge]] regime during their rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, with 196 in all being known. As a part of [[Pol Pot]]'s [[Cambodian Genocide|campaign]] of [[genocide]] against Cambodia's ethnic minorities, whole cities were evacuated and sent to these camps. Those who weren't killed outright or died from starvation were forced to do hard manual labor, usually until they died from overwork. The most well-known of these camps was Tuol Sleng, a converted secondary school that was known for its brutal methods of torture, which included electrocution, various forms of mutilation, and [[waterboarding]], among other things. The chief overseer of Tuol Sleng was [[Kang Kek Iew]], the head of the Khmer Rouge's internal security (the [[Santebal]]), who was convicted of [[war crimes]] and crimes against humanity in 2010 by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and sentenced to life in prison.

*Modern-day Chechnya has reportedly established a number of concentration camps specifically targeting homosexual or bisexual men; they are allegedly being used for the extrajudicial detention and torture of men who are suspected of being gay or bisexual, and are reportedly overseen directly by President [[Ramzan Kadyrov]].

*The United States interred Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during the latter half of World War II, as per an executive order issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to [[Imperial Japan]]'s [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|bombing of Pearl Harbor]]. Of 127,000 Japanese Americans living in the continental United States at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack, 112,000 resided on the West Coast. Roosevelt's executive order declared that all people of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the West Coast, including all of California and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Arizona, except for those in government camps. Approximately 5,000 Japanese Americans relocated outside the exclusion zone before March 1942, while some 5,500 community leaders had been arrested immediately after the Pearl Harbour attack and thus were already in custody. The majority of nearly 130,000 Japanese Americans living in the U.S. mainland were forcibly relocated from their West Coast homes during the spring of 1942. This is considered to be an act of [[ethnic cleansing]]. They also operated concentration camps in the Philippines during [[William McKinley]]'s tenure as president.

*The "New villages" were internment camps created by the British authorities during the [[Malayan Emergency]], and were used to relocate the rural and indigenous population so that they did not make contact with the [[Communist Party of Malaya]]. An estimated 470,509 people were forcibly relocated to these camps, living in deplorable conditions.

*The French used concentration camps in Algeria, both in the period of colonization and during the [[Algerian War|war of independence]].

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