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Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956

Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956

Author: Kirstin von Lingen
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9783319531403
Published In: August 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Switzerland ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan’s contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage for a tangled legal and political debate: just where did colonized and oppressed peoples owe their loyalties in time of war? And where did the balance of responsibility lie between individuals and nations? But global standards jostled uneasily with the pluralism of the Western colonial order in Asia, where legal rights depended on race and nationality. In the end, these limits led to profound dissatisfaction with the trials process, despite its vast scale and ambitious intentions, which has implications until today.

1. WAR CRIMES TRIALS IN ASIA: COLLABORATION AND COMPLICITY IN THE AFTERMATH

Kerstin von Lingen and Robert Cribb

2. KOREANS IN THE TRIALS OF JAPANESE WAR CRIMES SUSPECTS

Sandra Wilson

3. DEFINING COLONIAL "WAR CRIMES": KOREAN DEBATES ON COLLABORATION, WAR REPARATIONS, AND THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST

Deokhyo Choi

4. OATHS OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE SINGAPORE TRIALS

CHEAH Wui Ling

5. PUPPETS, PROFITEERS AND TRAITORS. DEFINING WARTIME COLLABORATION IN THE NETHERLANDS INDIES, 1945-1949

Esther Zwinkels

6. BETWEEN POST-OCCUPATION AND POST-COLONIAL: FRAMING THE RECENT PAST IN THE PHILIPPINE TREASON AMNESTY DEBATE, 1948

Konrad M. Lawson