Radhabinod Pal (27 January 1886 to 10 January 1967) was a Bengali Indian jurist who served as 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, and was the only judge on the tribunal to submit a judgment holding that all of the defendants were not guilty. The Yasukuni Shrine and the Kyoto Ryozen Gokoku Shrine in Japan both carry monuments dedicated to him.
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Why did Radhabinod Pal reject the verdicts of the Tokyo Tribunal?
He doubted the legal basis of the aggression and humanity charges and viewed the trial as victors' justice.
Pal rejected the legal validity of crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, which the tribunal had transposed from the Nuremberg trial, and he judged that the tribunal dispensed victors' justice. He also rejected the prosecution's claim of a conspiracy within the Japanese ruling class to wage war from 1928, and he set Japanese actions within the wider history of British, French and Dutch colonialism in Asia. He was not an apologist for Japan: he believed the Japanese had committed war crimes and atrocities, such as the Nanjing Massacre of 1937, and thought those acts should have been charged under the Class B and C categories of conventional war crimes.
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Among all the judges of the tribunal, he was the only one who submitted a judgement which insisted all defendants were not guilty.
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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.
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Pal 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.
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Wikidata Q116016, P569 date of birth claim (year)
P569 (date of birth): 1886
Wikidata Q116016, P569 date of birth claim (full date)
P569 (date of birth): 1886-01-27
Wikidata Q116016, P570 date of death claim (year)
P570 (date of death): 1967
Wikidata Q116016, P570 date of death claim (full date)
P570 (date of death): 1967-01-10
Wikidata Q116016, P19 place of birth claim
P19 (place of birth): Salempur
Wikidata Q116016, P20 place of death claim
P20 (place of death): Kolkata
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