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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... Japanese war criminals ŌSAWA TAKESHI Cambodia, 1979: trying Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide TARA H. GUTMAN Crimes against humanity in East Timor: the Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court hearings MARK CAMMACK Asia as the laboratory of ...
... Japanese war criminals ŌSAWA TAKESHI Cambodia, 1979: trying Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide TARA H. GUTMAN Crimes against humanity in East Timor: the Indonesian ad hoc Human Rights Court hearings MARK CAMMACK Asia as the laboratory of ...
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... Japanese biological warfare chiefs who fled to the Americans after the Second World War, the Pakistani generals who fled to the Indians after the secession of Bangladesh and, famously, Pol Pot, who long evaded capture, and then, days ...
... Japanese biological warfare chiefs who fled to the Americans after the Second World War, the Pakistani generals who fled to the Indians after the secession of Bangladesh and, famously, Pol Pot, who long evaded capture, and then, days ...
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... 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: It had been announced that the two Japanese were to be paraded in Chinese ...
... 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: It had been announced that the two Japanese were to be paraded in Chinese ...
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Kirsten Sellars. As a matter of fact the Chinese have been quite moderate about Japanese war criminals. Considering the immense number of crimes committed they have executed very few. They have preferred to make a public example of ...
Kirsten Sellars. As a matter of fact the Chinese have been quite moderate about Japanese war criminals. Considering the immense number of crimes committed they have executed very few. They have preferred to make a public example of ...
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Kirsten Sellars. figures in the biological warfare programme for crimes against ... Japanese prisoners from Siberia ... Secondly to make the United States and ... war criminals drew inspiration from earlier policies, dating back to the ...
Kirsten Sellars. figures in the biological warfare programme for crimes against ... Japanese prisoners from Siberia ... Secondly to make the United States and ... war criminals drew inspiration from earlier policies, dating back to the ...
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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