Between postoccupation and postcolonial: framing the recent past in the Philippine treason amnesty debate, 1948

Konrad M. Lawson

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-53141-0_6

Between postoccupation and postcolonial: framing the recent past in the Philippine treason amnesty debate, 1948

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The most extensive public debate on the moral dilemmas of life in the Japanese-occupied Philippines (1941–1945) took place between the first elected legislators of an independent Philippine republic in 1948 over whether to approve a partial presidential amnesty for wartime collaborators. The eventual approval of the amnesty brought an end to a struggling People’s Court system of trying treason cases, abandoned prosecutions for all accused political and economic collaborators, and transferred other cases of military collaboration and informers to regular criminal courts. The chapter explores some of the objections to the amnesty on the grounds of class discrimination that ultimately failed to persuade the majority but argues that, on all sides, participants saw the Philippine experience as deeply integrated in a broader global process of confronting the legacies of brutal foreign occupations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Debating collaboration and complicity in war crimes trials in Asia, 1945-1956
Editors	Kerstin von Lingen
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	105-128
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319531410
ISBN (Print)	9783319531403, 9783319850740
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53141-0_6
Publication status	Published - Aug 2017

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Name	World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
ISSN (Print)	2730-9630
ISSN (Electronic)	2730-9649

Keywords

Philippines
Political Retribution
20th century
History
Global history

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Lawson KM. Between postoccupation and postcolonial: framing the recent past in the Philippine treason amnesty debate, 1948. In von Lingen K, editor, Debating collaboration and complicity in war crimes trials in Asia, 1945-1956. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2017. p. 105-128. (World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence). Epub 2017 Jun 11. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-53141-0_6

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