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February 6, 2025 at 03:53 PM
🇸🇸 Today, Justice Info focuses on the ongoing *Lundin* trial in *Sweden*.
In March 2001, Ian Lundin, head of the oil company Lundin Oil, drove through a disputed area in Sudan with his security chief, Richard Ramsey, and Swedish journalist Bengt Nilsson, who had been invited to showcase the company’s projects. However, a footage of the press trip reveals troubling signs: a road built in a conflict-ridden region and child soldiers.
In 2025, Lundin is on trial in Stockholm for complicity in war crimes committed between 1997 and 2003. Prosecutors argue that he knew that his company’s activities contributed to violence and the displacement of civilians. During questioning, he downplays his involvement and insists he had no evidence of such crimes.
Documents from that time, including the Scorched Earth report by the NGO Christian Aid, describe attacks on villages that led to 11,000 people being displaced. In 2024, former child soldier Liah Diu Gatkuoth testifies, recounting how he saw his mother killed in a bombing after oil operations began. He explains that he was then recruited as a child soldier to guard oil facilities.
This article hinges on whether Lundin knew that his company’s presence was fueling violence.
👉 https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/141138-how-ian-lundin-2001-filmed-trip-sudan-backfired-court.html
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