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v. t. e. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission ( KLWCC ), also known as the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal ( KLWCT ), is a Malaysian organisation established in 2007 by the country's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad to unilaterally investigate war crimes. [1] [2] The KLWCC was instigated as an alternative to the International Criminal ...
Time, 17 December 1965. The killings started in October 1965 in Jakarta, spread to Central and Eastern Java and later to Bali, and smaller outbreaks occurred in parts of other islands, including Sumatra. The communal tensions and bitter hatreds that had built up were played upon by the Army leadership, which characterised communists as villains, and many Indonesian civilians took part in the ...
The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti-British National Liberation War [1] (1948–1960), was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist pro-independence fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth.
The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945. In May 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands, and martial law was declared in the Dutch East Indies. Following the failure of negotiations between the Dutch authorities and the Japanese ...
War crimes War crimes trial at Singapore. Members of the Kempeitai and camp guards were treated as prisoners of war because of their treatment of military and civilians. There were a number of war crimes trials. One held in 1947 found 7 Japanese officers guilty.
Indonesia had indirect support from the USSR and China, thus making it an episode of the Cold War in Asia. The conflict was an undeclared war with most of the action occurring in the border area between Indonesia and East Malaysia on the island of Borneo (known as Kalimantan in Indonesia). However Indonesia also conducted lower intensity covert ...
Victory. Captured pirates prosecuted and sentenced under the laws of the country that captured them. [17] Piracy in Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean came under control following the increase of security and maritime surveillance. [18] Lahad Datu standoff. (2013) Malaysia.
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.