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Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 – 10 January 1967) was an Indian Bengali 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 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.
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.
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]
In addition, the Japanese Government attempted to evade responsibility for their crimes against "Comfort Women" by establishing the Asian Women's Fund in July 1995, as a way to support non-governmental organizations focusing on women's issues. The Asian Women's Fund offered consolation money to the comfort women victims as means of atonement ...
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 ...
Dame Commander, Order of St. Sylvester (2002) Jeanne Alida " Jan " Ruff-O'Herne AO (18 January 1923 – 19 August 2019) [1][2] was a Dutch Australian of Irish ancestry and human rights activist known for campaigning internationally against war rape. During World War II, Ruff-O'Herne was forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army.
e. Shūmei Ōkawa (大川 周明, Ōkawa Shūmei, 6 December 1886 – 24 December 1957) was a Japanese nationalist and Pan-Asianist writer, known for his publications on Japanese history, philosophy of religion, Indian philosophy, and colonialism. Ōkawa advocated a form of Pan-Asianism which promoted Asian solidarity as a cover for Japanese ...