weapons of mass detention

From: SHUANGYI

"Barbed wire was used for the first time in the Spanish-American War during the siege of Santiago by the Spanish defenders. One year later, barbed wire was also extensively used in the Boer War, where it played a strategic role bringing spaces under control, at military outposts as well as to hold the captured Boer population in concentration camps. Less well known is its extensive usage in the Russo-Japanese War.
     More significantly, barbed wire was used extensively by all participating combatants in World War I to prevent movement, with deadly consequences. Barbed wire entanglements were placed in front of trenches to prevent direct charges on men below, increasingly leading to greater use of more advanced weapons such as high powered machine guns and grenades"
— Wikipedia
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"[...] The reason for this barbed wire in the streets of San Francisco was simple—it was a quarantine of Chinese people who were thought to be infested with bubonic plague. The reasons for this were simple and racist—given that the Chinese were seen from (at the very least) the 1860's to be an 'inferior' and 'degraded' race, living in close quarters and in fair squalor at times (given the wages that they were paid and the abuses they suffered from the Chinese Exclusion Acts), and given the codified racist sentiments against them, it was seen that these people were capable of spreading the diseases via their very presence and 'vapors.' (At least one of these 'three graces' of 'malarium,' 'small-pox' and leprosy were seen as coming directly from Chinatown in San Francisco [...]
     And so up went the barbed wire, 'and no Chinese American was allowed to leave the area bounded by California, Kearny, Broadway, and Stockton streets.'  This of course restricted the access of Chinese immigrants and Chinese-American citizens, and held for some three months, prohibiting access out and in, meaning that food was in short supply, prices for goods and food went very high, and many Chinese businesses suffered loss and closure. At the end of three months, the barbed wire quarantine was lifted, and of course not one case of plague was reported among the Chinese population."
— Ptak Science Books
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"Plans for a Jewish ghetto had in fact existed since the beginning of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw, but in October 1940 they finally began to take form. A small district South West of the Old Town, in the centre of the city, was chosen and 113,000 Poles were evacuated to make way for Warsaw's 400,000 Jews. Thirty percent of the city's population were now living in an area that constituted less than three square miles, or 2.4 % of the capital. In November that area was closed off by a formidable wall, topped with barbed wire."
— Warsaw-Life
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"HARVEY, Ill., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Atkore International Inc. ('Atkore'), today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire the assets of Razor Wire International, a manufacturing company specializing in razor wire ranging from 18 inches to 60 inches in diameter. The acquisition will strengthen Atkore's existing barbed tape product portfolio and market presence in the perimeter security market."— PR Newswire
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"At Atkore, we are committed to producing high quality products for our customers with zero harm to the people that create, use and deliver our products, as well as protecting the environment in which we work. Additionally, we encourage every employee to look out for the health and safety of others and make it their own personal priority. We are invested in making environment, health and safety an indispensable part of our company’s commitment to excellence."
— Atkore International ("Zero Harm Commitment")
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