{"id":155797,"date":"2026-04-21T15:50:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155797"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T22:50:05","slug":"justice-radhabinod-pal-and-the-tokyo-tribunal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/21\/justice-radhabinod-pal-and-the-tokyo-tribunal\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Radhabinod Pal and the Tokyo Tribunal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Source: National WW11 Museum, New Orleans, USA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/war\/articles\/justice-radhabinod-pal-tokyo-war-crimes-trial\">https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/war\/articles\/justice-radhabinod-pal-tokyo-war-crimes-trial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Radhabinod Pal voted for the acquittal of all the defendants on all counts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pal\u2019s dissent, more than 1,230 pages in length, reveals the fissures within the attempts to bring to justice Japanese war criminals. The last of the justices selected for the Tokyo proceedings, Pal, who had acquired his knowledge of international law as an auto-didact, joined after protests from India about the lack of diversity on the Tribunal. His addition did not alter, however, the undeniable fact that the trial was fundamentally a white man\u2019s tribunal,\u201d (&#8216;judging the yellow peril&#8217;) as historian John Dower stated so sharply.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: National WW11 Museum, New Orleans, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: National WW11 Museum, New Orleans, USA https:\/\/www.nationalww2museum.org\/war\/articles\/justice-radhabinod-pal-tokyo-war-crimes-trial At the Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Radhabinod Pal voted for the acquittal of all the defendants on all counts.&nbsp; Pal\u2019s dissent, more than 1,230 pages in length, reveals the fissures within the attempts to bring to justice Japanese war criminals. The last of the justices selected for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senaka-weeraratna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155798,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155797\/revisions\/155798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}