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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... justice in the Netherlands Indies war crimes trials LISETTE SCHOUT EN The superior orders defence at the postwar trials in Singapore CHEAH WUI LING The Khabarovsk trial: the Soviet riposte to the Tokyo Tribunal VALENT YNA POLUNINA 6 7 8 ...
... justice in the Netherlands Indies war crimes trials LISETTE SCHOUT EN The superior orders defence at the postwar trials in Singapore CHEAH WUI LING The Khabarovsk trial: the Soviet riposte to the Tokyo Tribunal VALENT YNA POLUNINA 6 7 8 ...
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... justice, as did South Africa. Though some African nations now protest at being on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of international criminal justice, they are without question active participants. Asia, by contrast, is ...
... justice, as did South Africa. Though some African nations now protest at being on the receiving end of a disproportionate amount of international criminal justice, they are without question active participants. Asia, by contrast, is ...
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... justice. Just as national security law dealt with assaults on the integrity of the state, so international criminal law (which drew heavily on national security law) was designed to deal with assaults on the integrity of the society of ...
... justice. Just as national security law dealt with assaults on the integrity of the state, so international criminal law (which drew heavily on national security law) was designed to deal with assaults on the integrity of the society of ...
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... justice in Asia, they reverted back to the old idea of 'the West'. Informed of the split on the Tokyo Tribunal bench over the validity of some of the charges, the British Foreign Office Assistant UnderSecretary Esler Dening wrote: 'If ...
... justice in Asia, they reverted back to the old idea of 'the West'. Informed of the split on the Tokyo Tribunal bench over the validity of some of the charges, the British Foreign Office Assistant UnderSecretary Esler Dening wrote: 'If ...
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... justice? In early 1947, a Chinese military tribunal in Shanghai found Yonemura Haruchi guilty of burying Chinese victims alive, and Shimoto Jiro guilty of torture, rape and plunder. Both were sentenced to death. Six months later, they ...
... justice? In early 1947, a Chinese military tribunal in Shanghai found Yonemura Haruchi guilty of burying Chinese victims alive, and Shimoto Jiro guilty of torture, rape and plunder. Both were sentenced to death. Six months later, they ...
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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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