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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the Tokyo war crimes tribunal as colonial empire winner's justice, 1946-1948. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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🗓️ 20 November 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#Londinium90AD: Gaius & Germanicus debate the Tokyo war crimes tribunal as colonial empire winner's justice, 1946-1948. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michalis_Vlahos

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offer ends December 3rd, 2023. Open to UK and N.I. Guardian. This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Batcheter with Germanicus, Machia's.

0:36.0

I'm Gai's. War crimes.

0:40.0

Headlines routinely use the term war crimes in a fashion that's meant to be somber.

0:48.3

For example, right now, Telegraph reporting, Russia's weaponization of Ukrainian grain highly likely a war crime.

0:56.9

Human rights lawyers say Kremlin-linked network of grain extraction points towards a carefully

1:02.3

planned campaign of a criminal nature.

1:06.4

I mentioned to you, Germanicus, that I've had occasion to speak with Gary Bass, the author

1:11.1

of a new book, Judgment at Tokyo, about the war crimes trials held 46 to

1:17.0

48 in Japan after the secession of the Pacific War.

1:23.4

And what I've learned from reading the details of the prosecution, which was parallel and

1:30.2

then longer than Nuremberg. Remembering that Nuremberg was about war crimes, not about

1:35.9

the Holocaust. That was another matter that was also important. But the war crimes of Class A, Class B, Class C, of Nuremberg we used in Tokyo as well.

1:49.4

Simple list. Class A is aggressive war. Class B is conventional war crimes, mass murder of civilians.

1:57.0

Class C is war against humanity.

1:59.0

War against humans. War against nature.

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