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California apologizes

for Japanese American

internment

By CUNEYT DIL ple who were imprisoned
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) in the camps and their
— California lawmakers on families. Several lawmak-
Thursday became the first ers gave somber state-
political leaders in the na- ments and gathered at the
tion's most populous state entrance of the chamber
to apologize for discrimi- after the vote to hug and
nating against Japanese shake hands with victims
Americans and helping like 96-year-old Kiyo Sato.
the U.S. government send Sato said young people
them to internment camps need to know about the
after Japan bombed Pearl 120,000 Japanese Ameri-
Harbor during World War II. cans who were sent to in-
The Assembly unanimously ternment camps during the Assemblyman Al Muratsuchi, D-Torrance, in back, joins Japanese Americans who were incarcer-
passed the resolution and war. ated during World War II after the California Assembly passed House Resolution 77 on Thursday,
Feb. 20, 2020, in Sacramento.
welcomed several peo- Continued on page 3 Associated Press