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The case went to the Court of Appeal, which asked for a specialist international law counsel who could assist on the question of immunity. That question proved to be not as complex as we had anticipated, because the Secretary-General of the United Nations waived the immunity of the colonel. The trial then started. The first trial could not be completed because there were all sorts of problems with the interpretation of the evidence. The second trial was also extremely complex because of issues with the Nepalese law, as well as with the evidence. At the end of that trial, the judge almost apologised to the jury for the complexity and unusual challenges it had given rise to.