Sudan war crime trial of former oil firm executives starts in Sweden

[cbabe]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/05/sudan-war-trial-of-former-oil-firm-executives-starts-in-sweden

Sudan war crime trial of former oil firm executives starts in Sweden

Prosecutors say ex-chair and CEO were complicit in atrocities by Sudanese army and militias, which both deny

Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent and Reuters in Stockholm
Tue 5 Sep 2023 07.11 EDT

Two former executives of a Swedish oil company have gone on trial in Stockholm, accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan between 1999 and 2003 – charges they both deny.

Ian Lundin, a Swede, and Alex Schneiter, a Swiss national, are accused of asking Sudan’s government to make its military responsible for security at the site of one of Lundin Oil’s exploration fields, which later led to aerial bombings, killing of civilians and burning of entire villages, according to the prosecution.

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Prosecutors say the then Lundin Oil – now known as Orrön Energy – asked Khartoum to secure a potential oilfield in what is now South Sudan, knowing this would mean seizing the area by force.

This made the executives complicit in war crimes that were then carried out by the Sudanese army and allied militia against civilians, according to the 2021 indictment.

The prosecution agency said then that the men were involved in actions that contravened international law.

“What constitutes complicity in a criminal sense is that they made these demands despite understanding or, in any case being indifferent to, the military and the militia carrying out the war in a way that was forbidden according to international humanitarian law,” the agency said in 2021.

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(How many dead/displaced in resource war?)

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[Bayard]

1. "Food insecurity"

Just call it what it is--they're starving. Including in this country.

Holding people at the top responsible is how justice should work.

[cbabe]

2. Yes. But why? Hard to grow crops when dodging genocide.

Edit: Might’ve misunderstood. Yes those at the top need a new Nuremberg trial.

And oil company profits confiscated to feed the starving.

[malaise]

3. About time

Get thee to the greatest page RFN,