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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... arguments and judgments M. RAFIQUL ISLAM Theories of joint criminal responsibility at the Asian tribunals: Hong Kong, East Timor and Cambodia NINA H.B. JØRGENSEN 14 The tribunals in Bangladesh: falling short of international standards.
... arguments and judgments M. RAFIQUL ISLAM Theories of joint criminal responsibility at the Asian tribunals: Hong Kong, East Timor and Cambodia NINA H.B. JØRGENSEN 14 The tribunals in Bangladesh: falling short of international standards.
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... tribunal trying those responsible for the killing fields in Bosnia; to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which now sits in The Hague. Other regions do feature, of course. The United States, for example, was ...
... tribunal trying those responsible for the killing fields in Bosnia; to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which now sits in The Hague. Other regions do feature, of course. The United States, for example, was ...
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... International Criminal Court, less than onethird of the countries in Asia have done so. The reasons for this are complex and linked to a more general wariness of accepting international obligations. Nevertheless, it seems probable that ...
... International Criminal Court, less than onethird of the countries in Asia have done so. The reasons for this are complex and linked to a more general wariness of accepting international obligations. Nevertheless, it seems probable that ...
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... international crimes tribunal'. These plans were halted by a coup and instability, but revived in 2009. Second in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror from 1975 to 1979 became the focus, three decades later, of mixed ...
... international crimes tribunal'. These plans were halted by a coup and instability, but revived in 2009. Second in Cambodia, where the Khmer Rouge's reign of terror from 1975 to 1979 became the focus, three decades later, of mixed ...
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... made especially important contributions. As the low takeup of International Criminal Court membership demonstrates, many Asian states are wary about bringing cases before international or hybrid courts, not least because of the ...
... made especially important contributions. As the low takeup of International Criminal Court membership demonstrates, many Asian states are wary about bringing cases before international or hybrid courts, not least because of the ...
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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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