Abstract
On April 29, 1946, Chief Prosecutor Joseph B. Keenan submitted an indictment to the court on behalf of the Allied Nations’ prosecutors. On May 3, the court sessions were officially opened by the IMTFE.
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Refers to April 23, 1895, six days after the signing of the “Shimonoseki Treaty”. This was when Russia, Germany and France “advised” Japan to return the Liaotung Peninsula to China through diplomatic mediation.
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The Statute of the International Criminal Court was adopted in Rome in 1998, and is commonly referred to as the Rome Statute. The Statute came into effect in 2002 and the International Criminal Court was formally established (in The Hague). The court is not a UN agency but an independent international criminal justice agency.
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Cheng, Z. (2019). The Trials. In: A History of War Crimes Trials in Post 1945 Asia-Pacific. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6697-0_3
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