Bosnian Muslims showed greater restraint than the US did with Japanese-Americans

Evidence

Given the enormity of the assault on Bosnia, the Bosnian people have shown restraint by refraining from retaliation or generic condemnation of all Serbs or all Christians. In World War II, the U.S. government put Japanese-Americans in detainment camps without any due cause and without Japan having occupied any U.S. soil; what might have happened to Japanese-Americans had Japan “ethnically cleansed” 70 percent of the United States? The Bosnian government never considered putting all Serbs in their territory into detention camps. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 633

Categorization

• SEED: The counterfactual comparison — detaining Japanese-Americans after 70% of the US had been ethnically cleansed, as Bosnia actually experienced — is a powerful thought experiment for an essay on how victimization is narrated differently between powerful and weak nations.