Re-education camp

Last updated September 07, 2025

Re-education camp may refer to:

Re-education camps in the Cambodian genocide
Re-education through labor (laojiao), a system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China
Xinjiang internment camps, internment camps for Uyghurs in Xinjiang, China
French re-education camps, announced in 2016
Internal exile in Greece, prison camps on barren islands for political dissidents by the government of Greece during the 20th century
Re-education camp (North Korea)
Samchung re-education camp, a military detention camp in South Korea during the 1980s
Re-education camp (Vietnam), prison camps operated by the government of Vietnam following the end of the Vietnam War
Civilizing missions in order to cultural assimilate indigenous peoples, such as American Indian boarding schools ^[1] and the Canadian Indian residential school system ^[2]^[3]

References

↑ James, Sonia (May 20, 2022), Re: In favor of the passage of H.R. 5444 / S. 2907 - Truth and Healing Commission on the Indian Boarding School Policies in the US (PDF) (letter), United States House of Representatives, Unfortunately, she passed away at the age of only 47 years in 1960 and left the family saddened that she was raised in this brutal way and forced by the government to be taken away from her family and raised by a military style "educational system" ie "re-education" camps of the Native American children.
↑ McQuaid, Robyn J.; Schwartz, Flint D.; Blackstock, Cindy; Matheson, Kim; Anisman, Hymie; Bombay, Amy (4 June 2022). "Parent-Child Separations and Mental Health among First Nations and Métis Peoples in Canada: Links to Intergenerational Residential School Attendance". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (11): 6877. doi:10.3390/ijerph19116877. The Canadian government forced generations of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children from their families and communities to attend "schools," that were more akin to re-education camps, operated by Christian churches with the aim of assimilation.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
↑ Miller, Barbara; McLennan, Bradley (1 June 2022). "Unmarked graves on school grounds force Canada to confront disturbing past". ABC News. Retrieved 6 September 2025. "Essentially, you start thinking about it, and it is enforced assimilation, indoctrination, re-education camps," said Professor Scott Hamilton from Lakehead University.

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[1] James, Sonia (May 20, 2022), Re: In favor of the passage of H.R. 5444 / S. 2907 - Truth and Healing Commission on the Indian Boarding School Policies in the US (PDF) (letter), United States House of Representatives, Unfortunately, she passed away at the age of only 47 years in 1960 and left the family saddened that she was raised in this brutal way and forced by the government to be taken away from her family and raised by a military style "educational system" ie "re-education" camps of the Native American children.

[2] McQuaid, Robyn J.; Schwartz, Flint D.; Blackstock, Cindy; Matheson, Kim; Anisman, Hymie; Bombay, Amy (4 June 2022). "Parent-Child Separations and Mental Health among First Nations and Métis Peoples in Canada: Links to Intergenerational Residential School Attendance". International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19 (11): 6877. doi:10.3390/ijerph19116877. The Canadian government forced generations of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children from their families and communities to attend "schools," that were more akin to re-education camps, operated by Christian churches with the aim of assimilation.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)

[3] Miller, Barbara; McLennan, Bradley (1 June 2022). "Unmarked graves on school grounds force Canada to confront disturbing past". ABC News. Retrieved 6 September 2025. "Essentially, you start thinking about it, and it is enforced assimilation, indoctrination, re-education camps," said Professor Scott Hamilton from Lakehead University.

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