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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... prisoners to spread the word about Chinese benevolence on their return to Japan. Examples such as this are unusual, though, and talk of any kind of rehabilitation, whether politically motivated or not, is still extremely rare. The.
... prisoners to spread the word about Chinese benevolence on their return to Japan. Examples such as this are unusual, though, and talk of any kind of rehabilitation, whether politically motivated or not, is still extremely rare. The.
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... prisoners of war. The charge of employment of bacteriological weapons against China was less clearcut, however. While the 1925 'Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of ...
... prisoners of war. The charge of employment of bacteriological weapons against China was less clearcut, however. While the 1925 'Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of ...
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... prisoners from Siberia ... Secondly to make the United States and Great Britain unpopular in the eyes of the Chinese Communists by reason of the former's refusal to comply with the Russian request [to indict the Emperor and others] ...
... prisoners from Siberia ... Secondly to make the United States and Great Britain unpopular in the eyes of the Chinese Communists by reason of the former's refusal to comply with the Russian request [to indict the Emperor and others] ...
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... prisoners' confessions alone might not provide sufficient basis for prosecution. It was then that Mei Ru'ao, the former Chinese judge at the Tokyo Tribunal, stepped into the debate. His advice was to avoid getting tied up by the legal ...
... prisoners' confessions alone might not provide sufficient basis for prosecution. It was then that Mei Ru'ao, the former Chinese judge at the Tokyo Tribunal, stepped into the debate. His advice was to avoid getting tied up by the legal ...
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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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