Jan Olsen writes in the Associated Press:
From 1983 to 2005, Sudan was torn apart by a civil war between the Muslim-dominated north and Christian south. A separate conflict in Darfur, the war-scarred region of western Sudan, began in 2003. Thousands of people were killed and nearly 200,000 displaced.
A 2010 report by an activist group, the European Coalition on Oil in Sudan, alleged that Lundin Oil and three other oil companies helped exacerbate the war in southern Sudan by signing an oil exploration deal with the Sudanese government for an area the regime didn’t fully control. Our ”investigation shows that the military and its allied militia systematically attacked civilians or carried out indiscriminate attacks,” Public Prosecutor Henrik Attorps said in a statement.
Lundin has abandoned or spun off most of its international activities to focus on Norway in recent years, where it discovered the largest oilfield in the North Sea in decades, Johan Sverdrup. It sold out of Sudan in 2003, and prosecutors are claiming back the proceeds from that sale.Swedish prosecutors have universal jurisdiction for certain international crimes and have used it to bring cases, among others, for crimes committed in Iran and Rwanda.But the Lundin case is the highest profile as it concerns one of Sweden’s leading business families, who control several oil, mining and natural resource companies. Swedish prosecutors have universal jurisdiction for certain international crimes and have used it to bring cases, among others, for crimes committed in Iran and Rwanda. But the Lundin case is the highest profile as it concerns one of Sweden’s leading business families, who control several oil, mining and natural resource companies.
x “allied militia systematically attacked civilians or carried out indiscriminate attacks. Aerial bombardments from transport planes, shooting civilians from helicopter gunships, abducting and plundering civilians and burning entire villages and their crops" https://t.co/P1eGYfx6zR — Extinction Rebellion Sverige (@ExtinctionR_SV) November 11, 2021
Positive_Compote_506 on November 15th, 2021 at 17:03 UTC »
So basically, Sweden is prosecuting them over them allegedly starting a civil war in Sudan.
SendMeNudesThough on November 15th, 2021 at 16:45 UTC »
Interestingly, Carl Bildt, former Prime Minister of Sweden, was on the board of directors at the time.
DotAccomplished5484 on November 15th, 2021 at 16:29 UTC »
This is an unusual and extraordinary case. It is near impossible to imagine the path that it will take.