drumhead tribunal
English
Noun
drumhead tribunal (plural drumhead tribunals)
- A drumhead court-martial.
- 1969, Derek Walcott, "Negatives" in Collected Poems, 1948-1984, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986, p. 124,
- I never knew you, Christopher Okigbo, / I saw you when an actor screamed "The tribes! / The Tribes!" I catch / the guttering, flare-lit / faces of Ibos, / stuttering, bug-eyed / prisoners of some drumhead tribunal.
- 2012, Alfred W. McCoy, Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, Chapter 6, p. 207, [1]
- By mid-2006, Australia thus remained one of the few foreign nations that still accepted the legality of Guantanamo's endless detention and drumhead tribunals.
- 1969, Derek Walcott, "Negatives" in Collected Poems, 1948-1984, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986, p. 124,