Nepal colonel facing torture charges in UK pleads for immunity
June 05, 2013 04:05
A Nepalese army officer accused of committing torture during his country's civil war in 2005, has pleaded for immunity in a London court today.
Kumar Lama is accused of torturing two men when he was in charge of a barracks in Nepal at the height of the Himalayan nation's decade-long conflict between Maoist rebels and government forces.