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^ "War Crimes in the Philippines during WWII (PDF)" Archived 2021-05-15 at the Wayback Machine Arthur D. Simons Center. Retrieved 05-13-2021.
The Manila massacre was one of several major war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army, as judged by the postwar military tribunal. The Japanese commanding general, Tomoyuki Yamashita, and his chief of staff Akira Mutō, were held responsible for the massacre and other war crimes in a trial which started in October 1945. Yamashita was executed on 23 February 1946 and Mutō on 23 ...
World War II Philippine war crimes trials. Between 1947 and 1949, 73 trials were conducted by the newly independent Republic of the Philippines against 155 members of the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy who committed war crimes during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines. This resulted in the conviction of 138 individuals and the death ...
General Tomoyuki Yamashita took the full blame and was charged with the Palawan massacre and other war crimes committed in the Philippines at his trial in 1945 under the doctrine of command responsibility.
The Philippine–American War, [13] known alternatively as the Philippine Insurrection, Filipino–American War, [a] or Tagalog Insurgency, [14] [15] [16] was fought between the First Philippine Republic and the United States from February 4, 1899, until July 2, 1902. [17] Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the Spanish ...
The Philippine War Crimes Commission ( Filipino: Komisyon ng mga Krimen sa Digmaan ng Pilipinas) was a commission created in late 1945 by General Douglas MacArthur as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers to investigate the war crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during the invasion, occupation, and liberation of the Philippines. The investigation by the ...
This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).
The following is a chronological list of people in the Philippines murdered by assassins. This list includes public figures and other prominent individuals who were active in politics and daily life. Most of these assassinations are attributed to state forces, rebel groups such as the New People's Army or the Abu Sayyaf Group or contract killers working on behalf of politicians (particularly ...