By studying British Indian Army (BIA) desertions during the Second World War and British post-war trial responses, this article explores the complicated dimensions of desertion and draws attention to the need for a more explicit and comprehensive approach to desertion in international humanitarian law. This article focuses on less known British trials dealing with desertion, namely, war crimes trials conducted by the British in Singapore. It examines how these trials dealt with contested interpretations of desertion. Drawing on lessons from these trials, this article then highlights gaps in today’s international humanitarian law framework, specifically, the need to take into account the realities of desertion, its different permutations, and the difficulties of differentiating between POWs and deserters.

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国际人道法中的遗弃和漏洞：处理新加坡战争罪审判中效忠的变化——附录

本文通过研究二战期间英属印度军队 (BIA) 的逃兵和英国战后审判的反应，探讨了逃兵的复杂维度，并提请注意国际人道法中对逃兵采取更明确和全面的方法的必要性。本文重点介绍鲜为人知的英国处理逃兵案件的审判，即英国在新加坡进行的战争罪审判。它考察了这些审判如何处理对逃兵的有争议的解释。借鉴这些审判的经验教训，本文接着强调了当今国际人道法框架中的差距，特别是需要考虑逃兵的现实、不同的排列以及区分战俘和逃兵的困难。