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Military Trials of War Criminals in the Netherlands East Indies 1946-1949
Contributor(s): Borch, Fred L. (Author)
ISBN: 0198777167     ISBN-13: 9780198777168
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $123.50  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: October 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | International
- Law | Public
- History | Military - World War Ii
Dewey: 341.690
LCCN: 2017945344
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.35 lbs) 268 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1940's
 
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Publisher Description:
From 1946 to 1949, the Dutch prosecuted more than 1000 Japanese soldiers and civilians for war crimes committed during the occupation of the Netherlands East Indies during World War II. They also prosecuted a small number of Dutch citizens for collaborating with their Japanese occupiers. The
war crimes committed by the Japanese against military personnel and civilians in the East Indies were horrific, and included mass murder, murder, torture, mistreatment of prisoners of war, and enforced prostitution. Beginning in 1946, the Dutch convened military tribunals in various locations in the
East Indies to hear the evidence of these atrocities and imposed sentences ranging from months and years to death; some 25 percent of those convicted were executed for their crimes. The difficulty arising out of gathering evidence and conducting the trials was exacerbated by the on-going guerrilla
war between Dutch authorities and Indonesian revolutionaries and in fact the trials ended abruptly in 1949 when 300 years of Dutch colonial rule ended and Indonesia gained its independence.

Until the author began examining and analysing the records of trial from these cases, no English language scholar had published a comprehensive study of these war crimes trials. While the author looks at the war crimes prosecutions of the Japanese in detail this book also breaks new ground in
exploring the prosecutions of Dutch citizens alleged to have collaborated with their Japanese occupiers. Anyone with a general interest in World War II and the war in the Pacific, or a specific interest in war crimes and international law, will be interested in this book.