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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... 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 BING JIA The joint ...
... 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 BING JIA The joint ...
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... Human Rights Court in Jakarta (convened to preempt the threat of an international tribunal) began to hear the cases of eighteen defendants accused of coordinating the violence. All the indictments alleged crimes against humanity and ...
... Human Rights Court in Jakarta (convened to preempt the threat of an international tribunal) began to hear the cases of eighteen defendants accused of coordinating the violence. All the indictments alleged crimes against humanity and ...
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... Tribunal for the Far East, 2 vols. (University Press Amsterdam BV, 1977); R. Pal, International Military Tribunal for ... human rights (Stroud: Sutton, 2002), pp. 47–48. 21 Ibid. 22 Ibid. 23 Garner (31 July 1947): FO 371/66554, TNA. 24 ...
... Tribunal for the Far East, 2 vols. (University Press Amsterdam BV, 1977); R. Pal, International Military Tribunal for ... human rights (Stroud: Sutton, 2002), pp. 47–48. 21 Ibid. 22 Ibid. 23 Garner (31 July 1947): FO 371/66554, TNA. 24 ...
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... tribunal in Cambodia', Searching for the Truth (Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of ... tribunal' (c. May 1972): FO 37/1056, TNA; Doble (16 June 1972): FO 37/1056, TNA. 51 This may refer to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...
... tribunal in Cambodia', Searching for the Truth (Phnom Penh: Documentation Center of ... tribunal' (c. May 1972): FO 37/1056, TNA; Doble (16 June 1972): FO 37/1056, TNA. 51 This may refer to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights ...
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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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