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Hong Kong's war crimes trials / edited by Suzannah Linton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--China--Hong Kong.
- Law.
- War crime trials.
- Hong Kong (China)--History--Siege, 1941.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (706 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the aftermath of the Second World War, the British military held 46 trials in Hong Kong in which 123 defendants, from Japan and Formosa (Taiwan), were tried for war crimes. This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of these trials. The subject matter of the trials spanned war crimes committed during the fall of Hong Kong, its occupation, and in the period after the capitulation following the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but before the formalsurrender. They included killings of hors de combat, abuses in prisoner-of-war camps, abuse and murder of civilians durin
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Foreword 1; Foreword 2; Acknowledgements; Contents; Table of Cases and Legal Materials; List of Contributors; Suzannah Linton; 1. Introduction; Alexander Zahar; 2. Trial Procedure at the British Military Courts, Hong Kong, 1946-1948; Yuma Totani; 3. The Prisoner of War Camp Trials; Suzannah Linton; 4. War Crimes; Nina H B Jørgensen; 5. On Being 'Concerned' in a Crime: Embryonic Joint Criminal Enterprise?; Bing Bing Jia; 6. The Plea of Superior Orders in the Hong Kong Trials; Roger S Clark; 7. Concluding Thoughts; Suzannah Linton
- Appendix: Major Murray Ormsby: War Crimes Judge and Prosecutor 1919-2012Bibliography; Index of Names; General Index; Footnotes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2013).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-174907-9
- 0-19-165298-9
- 0-19-165297-0
- OCLC:
- 861538514
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