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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... execution. Latin America contributed much to the development of transitional justice, as did South Africa. Though some African nations now protest at being on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of international criminal ...
... execution. Latin America contributed much to the development of transitional justice, as did South Africa. Though some African nations now protest at being on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of international criminal ...
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... publicly adopted a 'firm but fair' position, up to and including the death penalty. The Allies executed Japanese war criminals in Singapore, Batavia, Saigon, Yokohama, Rabaul, Manila and scores of other places after the.
... publicly adopted a 'firm but fair' position, up to and including the death penalty. The Allies executed Japanese war criminals in Singapore, Batavia, Saigon, Yokohama, Rabaul, Manila and scores of other places after the.
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... execute those Japanese convicted at Shenyang and Taiyuan. This 'leniency' was relative, of course, as some of the accused had been held without trial for as long as a decade. During their incarceration the Chinese took steps to ...
... execute those Japanese convicted at Shenyang and Taiyuan. This 'leniency' was relative, of course, as some of the accused had been held without trial for as long as a decade. During their incarceration the Chinese took steps to ...
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... plunder. Both were sentenced to death. Six months later, they were driven along the Bund and Nanking Road in openbacked vehicles before being shot at the Kiangwan Execution Ground in front of a vast crowd. It was the first public.
... plunder. Both were sentenced to death. Six months later, they were driven along the Bund and Nanking Road in openbacked vehicles before being shot at the Kiangwan Execution Ground in front of a vast crowd. It was the first public.
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Kirsten Sellars. front of a vast crowd. It was the first public execution of Japanese war criminals to take place in the city. The British ConsulGeneral in Shanghai, A.G.N. Ogden, reported all this to the British Ambassador in Nanking ...
Kirsten Sellars. front of a vast crowd. It was the first public execution of Japanese war criminals to take place in the city. The British ConsulGeneral in Shanghai, A.G.N. Ogden, reported all this to the British Ambassador in Nanking ...
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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