drumhead tribunal

English

Noun

drumhead tribunal (plural drumhead tribunals)

  1. A drumhead court-martial.
    • 1969, Derek Walcott, “Negatives”, in Collected Poems, 1948-1984, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, published 1986, page 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, chapter 6, in Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation‎, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, page 207:
      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.
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