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The first comprehensive legal appraisal of tribunals convened across Asia to try war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
List of contents
Foreword Simon Chesterman; Introduction Kirsten Sellars; 1. Treasonable conspiracies at Paris, Moscow, and Delhi: the legal hinterland of the Tokyo tribunal Kirsten Sellars; 2. Then and now: command responsibility, the Tokyo tribunal, and modern international criminal law Robert Cryer; 3. Colonial justice at the Netherlands Indies war crimes trials Lisette Schouten; 4. The superior orders defence at the postwar trials in Singapore Cheah Wui Ling; 5. The Khabarovsk trial: the Soviet riposte to the Tokyo tribunal Valentyna Polunina; 6. The People's Republic of China's 'lenient treatment' policy towards Japanese war criminals ¿sawa Takeshi; 7. Cambodia, 1979: trying Khmer Rouge leaders for genocide Tara Gutman; 8. Crimes against humanity in East Timor: the hearings at the Indonesian Ad Hoc Human Rights Court Mark Cammack; 9. Asia as the laboratory of the superior responsibility doctrine Rehan Abeyratne; 10. The two approaches to the superior orders plea Jia Bing Bing; 11. The joint criminal enterprise doctrine at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia Neha Jain; 12. Trials for international crimes in Bangladesh: prosecutorial strategies, defence arguments, and judgments M. Rafiqul Islam; 13. Theories of joint criminal responsibility at the Asian tribunals: Hong Kong, East Timor, Cambodia Nina H. B. Jørgensen; 14. The tribunals in Bangladesh: falling short of international standards Abdur Razzaq.
About the author
Kirsten Sellars is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Summary
International crimes remain highly topical in Asia. A succession of tribunals have been convened in the region, from those held after the Asia-Pacific War to those currently running in Dhaka and Phnom Penh. This is the first book to assess their important contribution to the development of international criminal law.
