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Backlash Over Vogue's Call For Internment Camps

Vogue Williams has been facing backlash after saying internment camps were a "grim necessity". The m...
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Backlash Over Vogue's Call For Internment Camps

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2:10 PM - 6 Jun 2017



Vogue Williams has been facing backlash after saying internment camps were a "grim necessity".

The model and TV presenter said in her column in the Sunday World that radical extremists should be locked in camps.

"The only way to stop these senseless attacks is to put any potential threats away."

The model and TV presenter then goes on to say that she knows it didn't work with the internment of IRA members in the north but "in today's case the terrorists can't be negotiated with.

People have been calling her remarks ill-informed and offensive.

People have been questioning whether Vogue wrote the column or whether it was ghost written, while some have called it a publicity stunt.

Human Rights organisations have also condemned the comments and say the type of internment camps Vogue is talking about - where people are held without trial - are never the answer.

We contacted Vogue's management for comment but didn't receive a response.

Nicole Gernon filed this report for the national lunchtime news:

 



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