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Bringing Perpetrator Of Human Rights Violence To Justice
By KTM Metro Reporter
January 4, 2013: Deputy Prime Minister Narayankaji Shrestha told reporters that the Nepal government has demanded the immediate release of Col. Kumar Lama. Nepal has also instructed its embassy in London to submit a protest note to the British government, according to the Washington Post news.
The British Metropolitan Police arrested the 46-year-old Colonel Kumar Lama on Thursday, January 3, 2013 in St. Leonards-on-Sea about 70 miles (112 kilometers) southeast of London following the complaint filed against him by the Advocacy Forum Nepal.
The Government of Nepal has written to the British Government, expressing its serious objection to the detention of Nepal Army (NA) Colonel Kumar Lama by the British Police, according to the Nepal state-run news agency RSS.
The arrest of Nepal Army Colonel Kumar Lama in the United Kingdom on allegation of torture during the conflict is a warning to those involved in serious human rights abuses in Nepal, an international human rights agency said today, according to nepalnews.com.
"The arrest in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2013, of a Nepal Army colonel suspected of torture sends a warning to those accused of serious crimes in Nepal and elsewhere that they cannot hide from the law forever," said Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today, "Nepal failed to prosecute anyone for torture during the decade-long civil war in the nearly seven years since it ended."
Brad Adams, Asia director, said, “Those responsible for committing torture in Nepal can no longer assume they are beyond the reach of the law in other countries. The lesson for the Nepal government and army is that it is time to end the culture of impunity that has left victims waiting for justice for far too long.”
“The arrest of the Nepali army officer sends a strong and important signal that the UK takes its international obligation to hold torturers accountable for atrocity crimes seriously, even if Nepal does not,” Adams said. “The UK’s move should remind those accused of rights abuses the world over that they can run, but it’s getting a lot harder for them to hide.”
The rights group noted that Nepalese authorities have not only failed to file a single prosecution in civilian courts concerning war crimes but also try to defend the perpetrators of human rights violence have been shown by the way the current government has protested the British Government against the arrest of Colonel Lama in Britain.
