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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... Tokyo Tribunal KIRSTEN SEL LARS Then and now: command responsibility, the Tokyo Tribunal and modern international criminal law ROBERT CRYER Colonial justice in the Netherlands Indies war crimes trials LISETTE SCHOUT EN The superior ...
... Tokyo Tribunal KIRSTEN SEL LARS Then and now: command responsibility, the Tokyo Tribunal and modern international criminal law ROBERT CRYER Colonial justice in the Netherlands Indies war crimes trials LISETTE SCHOUT EN The superior ...
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... Tokyo Tribunal closed, the international lawyer Georg Schwarzenberger wrote that the 'legal standards – or their absence – of the Tokyo Trial were such as to make lawyers wish to forget all about it at the earliest possible moment'. In ...
... Tokyo Tribunal closed, the international lawyer Georg Schwarzenberger wrote that the 'legal standards – or their absence – of the Tokyo Trial were such as to make lawyers wish to forget all about it at the earliest possible moment'. In ...
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... Tokyo Tribunal. Given this history, it is not hard to see how international criminal law might come to be seen in Asia as a tool to be used for selected political ends, rather than as a manifestation of the rule of law applicable ...
... Tokyo Tribunal. Given this history, it is not hard to see how international criminal law might come to be seen in Asia as a tool to be used for selected political ends, rather than as a manifestation of the rule of law applicable ...
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... tribunal, and the Bangladeshi authorities have ... Tokyo prosecution declined to indict the Emperor Shōwa (who, under American tutelage, had been transformed into an obliging constitutional monarch); and the People's Revolutionary Tribunal ...
... tribunal, and the Bangladeshi authorities have ... Tokyo prosecution declined to indict the Emperor Shōwa (who, under American tutelage, had been transformed into an obliging constitutional monarch); and the People's Revolutionary Tribunal ...
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... trials have seen both judicial activism and judicial restraint – often in counterpoint to concurrent trial programmes in Europe. At the Tokyo Tribunal, for example, prosecutors relied more heavily on 'common plan or conspiracy' than did ...
... trials have seen both judicial activism and judicial restraint – often in counterpoint to concurrent trial programmes in Europe. At the Tokyo Tribunal, for example, prosecutors relied more heavily on 'common plan or conspiracy' than did ...
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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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