The Partition - 1947

[Xerxes]

Not to start a political thread, but I read this Obituary and I found it fascinating. How wars, partition, macro events touches random bystanders and shape their lives till the very end. This would be more of a legal case, than anything else but an interesting story. 

 

[Haryana]

The Internment - 1944

That blanket seizure of all assets from innocent Japanese Canadians by the government of British Columbia looks like more relevant and worth knowing!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Canadians

...Canada forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia in the name of "national security". The majority were Canadian citizens by birth and were targeted based on their ancestry.

...The internment in Canada included the theft, seizure, and sale of property belonging to this forcefully displaced population, which included fishing boats, motor vehicles, houses, farms, businesses, and personal belongings.

...In August 1944, Prime Minister Mackenzie King announced that Japanese Canadians were to be moved east out of the British Columbia Interior. The official policy stated that Japanese Canadians must move east of the Rocky Mountains or be deported to Japan following the end of the war.

 

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/military-war/japanese-canadian-internment

"After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, both the United States and Canada cracked down on their citizens of Japanese descent. In British Columbia, entire Japanese-Canadian neighbourhoods were eradicated. Homes and possessions belonging to Japanese-Canadians were seized and sold."