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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... Crimes against humanity in East Timor: the Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court hearings MARK CAMMACK Asia as the laboratory of the superior responsibility doctrine REHAN ABEYRATNE The two approaches to the superior orders plea BING ...
... Crimes against humanity in East Timor: the Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court hearings MARK CAMMACK Asia as the laboratory of the superior responsibility doctrine REHAN ABEYRATNE The two approaches to the superior orders plea BING ...
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... crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and, potentially, aggression, can be traced to the region's experience of international criminal law. As this volume demonstrates, far from being bypassed by international criminal law or ...
... crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and, potentially, aggression, can be traced to the region's experience of international criminal law. As this volume demonstrates, far from being bypassed by international criminal law or ...
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... crimes: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. And it considers the development of general theories of liability, to which the Asian trials have made especially important contributions. As the low takeup ...
... crimes: crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. And it considers the development of general theories of liability, to which the Asian trials have made especially important contributions. As the low takeup ...
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... crimes against humanity and charged the defendants on the basis of command responsibility for acts committed by subordinates. Six defendants were convicted; all were acquitted on appeal. As Mark Cammack shows in his chapter, the ad hoc ...
... crimes against humanity and charged the defendants on the basis of command responsibility for acts committed by subordinates. Six defendants were convicted; all were acquitted on appeal. As Mark Cammack shows in his chapter, the ad hoc ...
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... humanity which we have come to know as “civilized,” they must be punished.'9 The concept of 'civilisation' is ... crimes against peace charge – which effectively froze the postwar international status quo and potentially criminalised ...
... humanity which we have come to know as “civilized,” they must be punished.'9 The concept of 'civilisation' is ... crimes against peace charge – which effectively froze the postwar international status quo and potentially criminalised ...
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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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