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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... political environment after the conclusion of hostilities in the Pacific theatre, it is not surprising that the trials quickly became caught up in the liberation struggles around the region – nor that the United States and the European ...
... political environment after the conclusion of hostilities in the Pacific theatre, it is not surprising that the trials quickly became caught up in the liberation struggles around the region – nor that the United States and the European ...
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... political ends, rather than as a manifestation of the rule of law applicable equally to all. The various trials are interesting not only for their political significance, however. They also offered what Kirsten Sellars rightly describes ...
... political ends, rather than as a manifestation of the rule of law applicable equally to all. The various trials are interesting not only for their political significance, however. They also offered what Kirsten Sellars rightly describes ...
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... political schisms caused by later crimes carried out in Bangladesh, Cambodia and East Timor. Over the years, the region has hosted a succession of tribunals for such crimes, from those established in Manila, Singapore and Tokyo just ...
... political schisms caused by later crimes carried out in Bangladesh, Cambodia and East Timor. Over the years, the region has hosted a succession of tribunals for such crimes, from those established in Manila, Singapore and Tokyo just ...
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... political functions bore down heavily on the proceedings, and prosecution and defence lawyers occasionally accommodated to them. At Khabarovsk, for example, both sides strove to establish the Japanese defendants' guilt, while at Jakarta ...
... political functions bore down heavily on the proceedings, and prosecution and defence lawyers occasionally accommodated to them. At Khabarovsk, for example, both sides strove to establish the Japanese defendants' guilt, while at Jakarta ...
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... politics of the Yamashita case. He wrote, 'Of course, the charges against Yamashita that he failed to prevent ... political mode, he added, 'I have always thought it a very unfortunate thing for the United States that members of ...
... politics of the Yamashita case. He wrote, 'Of course, the charges against Yamashita that he failed to prevent ... political mode, he added, 'I have always thought it a very unfortunate thing for the United States that members of ...
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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