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Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian jurist who was a member of the United Nations' International Law Commission from 1952 to 1966. He was one of three Asian judges appointed to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the "Tokyo Trials" of Japanese war crimes committed during the Second World War. [2]
The threat of Japanese rape against Chitty girls led Chitty families to let Eurasians, Chinese and full blooded Indians to marry Chitty girls and stop practicing endogamy. [48] Japanese soldiers gang raped Indian Tamil girls and women they forced to work on the Burma railway and made them dance naked.
Comfort women. Korean comfort women being questioned by the United States Army after the Siege of Myitkyina, August 14, 1944 [ 1 ] Native name. Japanese: 慰安婦, ianfu. Date. 1932–1945. Location. Asia. Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories ...
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," [24] which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, [25] including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Violence against women related to modesty encompasses assaults intended to outrage a woman's modesty and insults to the modesty of women. In the period from 2011 to 2012, there was a 5.5% rise in reported assaults with the intent to outrage her modesty, with Madhya Pradesh contributing 6,655 cases, making up 14.7% of the national incidents. [42]
t. e. Hideki Tojo (東條 英機, Tōjō Hideki, pronounced [toːʑoː çideki] ⓘ; 30 December 1884 – 23 December 1948) was a Japanese politician, military leader and convicted war criminal who served as prime minister of Japan and president of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association from 1941 to 1944 during World War II.
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial and the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on 29 April 1946 to try leaders of the Empire of Japan for their crimes against peace, conventional war crimes, and crimes against humanity, leading up to and during the Second World War. [1]
During the raids a number of women were raped. The 'Committee for Initiative in Kashmir' which visited the Valley between 12 and 16 March 1990 interviewed the victims. Rape victim Noora (24) was forcefully dragged out of her kitchen by 20 men from the CRPF and raped, along with her sister-in-law Zaina.