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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Kirsten Sellars. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 The People's Republic of China's 'lenient treatment' policy towards Japanese war criminals ŌSAWA TAKESHI Cambodia, 1979: trying Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide TARA H. GUTMAN Crimes against humanity ...
Kirsten Sellars. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 The People's Republic of China's 'lenient treatment' policy towards Japanese war criminals ŌSAWA TAKESHI Cambodia, 1979: trying Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide TARA H. GUTMAN Crimes against humanity ...
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... People's Republic convened trials at Shenyang and Taiyuan in 1956 to try defendants accused of war crimes. Both the Soviet and Chinese initiatives were carefully calibrated to emphasise communist magnanimity towards a former enemy, in ...
... People's Republic convened trials at Shenyang and Taiyuan in 1956 to try defendants accused of war crimes. Both the Soviet and Chinese initiatives were carefully calibrated to emphasise communist magnanimity towards a former enemy, in ...
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... people from the much publicised action of the Allied Council for Japan calling for the repatriation of some 375,000 ... People's Republic's 'lenient treatment' policy towards alleged Japanese war criminals drew inspiration from earlier ...
... people from the much publicised action of the Allied Council for Japan calling for the repatriation of some 375,000 ... People's Republic's 'lenient treatment' policy towards alleged Japanese war criminals drew inspiration from earlier ...
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... People's Republic of Bangladesh.56 While the figures differ, an authoritative source, Justice F.K.M. Abdul Munim, indicated that from 24 January to 13 December 1972, forty thousand people were investigated, twenty thousand were charged ...
... People's Republic of Bangladesh.56 While the figures differ, an authoritative source, Justice F.K.M. Abdul Munim, indicated that from 24 January to 13 December 1972, forty thousand people were investigated, twenty thousand were charged ...
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... People's Republic of Bangladesh',61 his case provides a rare postTokyo example of someone sentenced for what was in effect a 'crime against peace'. Most of the other defendants were (according to Justice Munim) members of paramilitary ...
... People's Republic of Bangladesh',61 his case provides a rare postTokyo example of someone sentenced for what was in effect a 'crime against peace'. Most of the other defendants were (according to Justice Munim) members of paramilitary ...
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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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