Andrea Pitzer is a journalist and the author of the well-reviewed book, One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps. It’s a historical analysis of concentration camps in various contexts, through history:
For more than 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on earth. A new book documents the harrowing history of concentration camps and what author Andrea Pitzer calls the "larger concentration camp tapestry" — beginning with 1890s Cuba and continuing, she says, with Guantanamo Bay today.
"When people think of camps they just think of the death camps," Pitzer says. "They think of Auschwitz, but really there's this century long history of all different kinds of camps: transit camps, deportation camps, internment camps, labor camps." — www.wbur.org/...
Concentration camps are not alien to the USA, our government has sanctioned and created concentration camps in one form or another to steal land, resources and labor from native and black communities for much of our history.
So with that history in mind, here’s what Andrea Pitzer had to say about the gross criminal violation of human rights being perpetrated by the Trump administration in our name.
Yes, you read that right, she’s comparing the abuses our government is foisting on vulnerable migrant children, with the horrors visited on Rohingya people.
That should scare all of us straight.
— @subirgrewal