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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... criminal law. The dominant story tends to be a European one, from the trial of the Alsatian Peter von Hagenbach for crimes committed at Breisach; to the Allies' trials of the Germans at Nuremberg, Hamburg, Rastatt and East Berlin; to ...
... criminal law. The dominant story tends to be a European one, from the trial of the Alsatian Peter von Hagenbach for crimes committed at Breisach; to the Allies' trials of the Germans at Nuremberg, Hamburg, Rastatt and East Berlin; to ...
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... crimes committed in the 1930s and 1940s, and the deep 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 ...
... crimes committed in the 1930s and 1940s, and the deep 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 ...
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... crimes committed in East Timor rather than hand them over to a proposed UNmandated tribunal, and the Bangladeshi authorities have pushed ahead with the current trials, despite these provoking lethal clashes on the streets and widespread ...
... crimes committed in East Timor rather than hand them over to a proposed UNmandated tribunal, and the Bangladeshi authorities have pushed ahead with the current trials, despite these provoking lethal clashes on the streets and widespread ...
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... crimes committed during the occupation. But convening war crimes trials in the midst of a colonial insurgency raised significant problems, the greatest of which was the legitimacy of the trials themselves. As Lisette Schouten shows in ...
... crimes committed during the occupation. But convening war crimes trials in the midst of a colonial insurgency raised significant problems, the greatest of which was the legitimacy of the trials themselves. As Lisette Schouten shows in ...
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... crimes committed they have executed very few. They have preferred to make a public example of notorious cases rather than execute large numbers privately. I do not consider that the Chinese have behaved any worse than many European ...
... crimes committed they have executed very few. They have preferred to make a public example of notorious cases rather than execute large numbers privately. I do not consider that the Chinese have behaved any worse than many European ...
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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