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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... civilian superiors.'15 The PreTrial Chamber rejected their argument, relying, among other things, on the Yamashita, Toyoda, and Tokyo judgments.16 These are important sources, but as Robert Cryer shows in his chapter, there are equally ...
... civilian superiors.'15 The PreTrial Chamber rejected their argument, relying, among other things, on the Yamashita, Toyoda, and Tokyo judgments.16 These are important sources, but as Robert Cryer shows in his chapter, there are equally ...
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... civilian and military officials in the custody of Bangladesh, plus another 1,500 or so Pakistani officers and men in the custody of India (including two leading figures: MajorGeneral Rao Farman Ali and LieutenantGeneral Abdullah Khan ...
... civilian and military officials in the custody of Bangladesh, plus another 1,500 or so Pakistani officers and men in the custody of India (including two leading figures: MajorGeneral Rao Farman Ali and LieutenantGeneral Abdullah Khan ...
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... civilian Governor of East Pakistan, and his Minister of Law, Jasmuddin Ahmed, were both sentenced to 'transportation' for life. Malik was indicted for waging war against Bangladesh, collaborating with the Pakistan Army and 'creating ...
... civilian Governor of East Pakistan, and his Minister of Law, Jasmuddin Ahmed, were both sentenced to 'transportation' for life. Malik was indicted for waging war against Bangladesh, collaborating with the Pakistan Army and 'creating ...
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... civilians. It is also true that Bernays, inspired by a Californian bootlegging case, Marino v. United States, found a unifying concept in the common law doctrine of criminal conspiracy. He suggested that the proposed tribunal should try ...
... civilians. It is also true that Bernays, inspired by a Californian bootlegging case, Marino v. United States, found a unifying concept in the common law doctrine of criminal conspiracy. He suggested that the proposed tribunal should try ...
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... civilian and military leaders into crimes planned by groups of people or carried out by subordinates. What can be seen, then, is the transposition of the law governing crimes against the security of the state – treason – into ...
... civilian and military leaders into crimes planned by groups of people or carried out by subordinates. What can be seen, then, is the transposition of the law governing crimes against the security of the state – treason – into ...
Contents
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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