Screen LibraryTrials for international crimes in Asia /
"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 Manil...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"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 D "Some of the earliest rules intended to limit the conduct of hostilities can be traced back two and a half thousand years to Asia. The Chinese general Sun Tzu's The Art of War, written in the sixth century BC, is now a classic text of military strategy and tactics. But it is more than that. For alongside the discussions of attack and defence, the laying of traps and the burning of arsenals, it also explores commanders' responsibilities to both sovereigns and subordinates when engaged in warfare"-- |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 372 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781107104655 1107104653 |
| Index Number: | KZ7230 |
| CLC: | D995 |
| Call Number: | D995/T819 |
| Contents: | Foreword / Simon Chesterman -- Introduction / Kirsten Sellars -- Treasonable conspiracies at Paris, Moscow, and Delhi: the legal hinterland of the Tokyo tribunal / Kirsten Sellars -- Then and now: command responsibility, the Tokyo tribunal, and modern international criminal law / Robert Cryer -- Colonial justice at the Netherlands Indies war crimes trials / Lisette Schouten -- The superior orders defence at the post-war trials in Singapore / Cheah Wui Ling -- The Khabarovsk trial: the Soviet riposte to the Tokyo tribunal / Valentyna Polunina -- The People's Republic of China's 'lenient treat |