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My second concern is about the complexity of these prosecutions. Although I am not a criminal practitioner, I happened to be counsel in one of the very few cases brought under universal jurisdiction in this country. That case concerned Kumar Lama, a colonel in the Nepalese Armed Forces who was accused of committing torture during the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. At the time of his arrest in the UK, he was a serving member of a UN peacekeeping mission, and, in that capacity, he enjoyed certain immunities under international law.