Trials for International Crimes in AsiaKirsten Sellars Cambridge University Press, 2015 M10 22 The issue of international crimes is highly topical in Asia, with still-resonant claims against the Japanese for war crimes, and deep schisms resulting from crimes in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and East Timor. Over the years, the region has hosted a succession of tribunals, from those held in Manila, Singapore and Tokyo after the Asia-Pacific War to those currently running in Dhaka and Phnom Penh. This book draws on extensive new research and offers the first comprehensive legal appraisal of the Asian trials. As well as the famous tribunals, it also considers lesser-known examples, such as the Dutch and Soviet trials of the Japanese, the Cambodian trial of the Khmer Rouge, and the Indonesian trials of their own military personnel. It focuses on their approach to the elements of international crimes, and their contribution to general theories of liability. In the process, this book challenges some orthodoxies about the development of international criminal law. |
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... December 1949, the Dutch escorted the remaining Japanese accused and convicted onto the M.S. Tjisadane, bound for Japan. The following day, they ceded power to the Republic of Indonesia, and departed their former colony for good. Half a ...
... December 1949, the Dutch escorted the remaining Japanese accused and convicted onto the M.S. Tjisadane, bound for Japan. The following day, they ceded power to the Republic of Indonesia, and departed their former colony for good. Half a ...
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... December 1943, 'I am bring pressed now from various quarters for the Manual to be appropriately amended ... Sorry to be a nuisance, but in view of the Kharkov trials I think it is quite time we got this matter put right.'32 Hersch ...
... December 1943, 'I am bring pressed now from various quarters for the Manual to be appropriately amended ... Sorry to be a nuisance, but in view of the Kharkov trials I think it is quite time we got this matter put right.'32 Hersch ...
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... December, the new leader of Bangladesh, Mujibur Rahman, hoping to stop the bloodshed and prevent further communal violence, proposed two sets of trials: one to deal with Pakistanis accused of committing international crimes, and the ...
... December, the new leader of Bangladesh, Mujibur Rahman, hoping to stop the bloodshed and prevent further communal violence, proposed two sets of trials: one to deal with Pakistanis accused of committing international crimes, and the ...
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... December 1972, forty thousand people were investigated, twenty thousand were charged and taken into custody and less than a thousand people were convicted (with the right of appeal).57 As a British diplomat reported on 7 December, 'The ...
... December 1972, forty thousand people were investigated, twenty thousand were charged and taken into custody and less than a thousand people were convicted (with the right of appeal).57 As a British diplomat reported on 7 December, 'The ...
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... December 1945), p. 227: CAB 79/42, TNA.) It was agreed he could use Japanese troops if none other were available. (Chiefs of Staff Committee Joint Planning Staff (23 December 1945), Annex 2, p. 332: CAB 79/42, TNA.) 5 In re Yamashita ...
... December 1945), p. 227: CAB 79/42, TNA.) It was agreed he could use Japanese troops if none other were available. (Chiefs of Staff Committee Joint Planning Staff (23 December 1945), Annex 2, p. 332: CAB 79/42, TNA.) 5 In re Yamashita ...
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command responsibility the Tokyo | |
Colonial justice in the Netherlands Indies war crimes | |
The superior orders defence at the postwar trials | |
the Soviet riposte to the Tokyo | |
VALENT YNA POLUNINA | |
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