‘Memorial to all who suffered’: survivors protest wind farm near Japanese American incarceration site

Nearly 125,000 persons were held at the Minidoka camp during the second world war. Now, a green energy project threatens the ‘sacred’ place

Paul Tomita was just four when his family was interned. He was too young to remember Franklin D Roosevelt, then president, issuing the executive order that saw him and at least 125,000 others of Asian descent packed onto blacked-out trains and sent to prison camps during the second world war.

But his memories come alive when he recalls the hard, clattering train filled with fear and anxiety.