Colonel Kumar Lama

Colonel Kumar Lama or Kumar Lama was a colonel in the Nepalese Army before getting arrested in the UK on charges of torture. He was a military observer in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and was arrested by the Scotland Yard at St. Leonard’s-on-sea near Hastings over torture he was alleged to have committed during the decade long conflict, while he was visiting the UK. He was held at his East Sussex home by the Metropolitan Police officers.
Detectives with specialist experience of war crimes arrested the officer under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act, a law that defines torture as a "universal jurisdiction" crime. This means that suspects can face trial before a British court even if their alleged offences had nothing to do with the UK. He is accused of committing crimes during Nepal's civil war, in which more than 16,000 people died. However, Nepal said Britain is breaching its sovereignty by carrying out the arrest. Narayan Kaji Shrestha, the country's foreign...