Word: yamashita
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...Yamashita v. Westmoreland...
...military tribunal in Manila did something even more questionable in the case of General Tomoyuki Yamashita, commander of Japanese forces in the Philippines near the war's end. Yamashita was found guilty of failing to stop his army from committing various atrocities, including the killing of 25,000 unarmed civilians. In fact, he had been holed up in northern Luzon, unable to control or even communicate with most of his men. Even so, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld his conviction on the dubious assumption that he had had power to stop the atrocities and therefore, as commander, he had been...
...Yamashita was executed?perhaps for the sake of a good principle (command responsibility) but surely with scant regard for the evidence. Is his fate, as many now suggest, a precedent for prosecuting American
...three men compared the trial of Yamashita, a Japanese general convicted and hanged by the United States for his responsibility for atrocities committed in the Philippines during World War II, to the recent trials of American military officers connected with the My Lai massacres...
...apply the Supreme Court decision against Yamashita in 1946 to the present situation in Vietnam," said Reel, the defense attorney for Yamashita, "General Westmoreland and even President Johnson are guilty of committing war crimes...