Abstract
The Tokyo tribunal was the only court established by the Allies in Asia after WWII to try Class A war criminals. There were also a “quasi-Class A” court and a number of courts spread over the Asia-Pacific region trying Class B and C war crimes. The trials in these courts lasted much longer than the Tokyo Trials (1945–1952), but they were perhaps more complete than those carried out by the Allies in the Far East. This chapter focuses on those Asian Class B and C trials.
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After the fall of Singapore, the Japanese military launched a clean-up operation against the local Chinese. A large number of Chinese that were suspected of fighting against Japan were brutally killed. Japanese forces carried out the operation secretly, and so it is hard to confirm the death toll. The figures presented in the British trials ranged from 25,000 to 50,000.
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Cheng, Z. (2019). Other Asian Trials for Japanese War Crimes. 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_5
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