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South Sudan: Sweden - Oil Executives On Trial Over Sudan War Crimes
DW, 5 September 2023
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South Sudan: South Sudanese Advocates - Harsh Media Environment Has Chilling Effect
VOA, 30 September 2023
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South Africa: Mashatile to Brief MPs On Land Claim, South Sudan Peace Talks
SAnews.gov.za, 21 September 2023
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Uganda: 13 Ugandans Allegedly Abducted By South Sudanese Authorities Released
Independent (Kampala), 24 September 2023
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South Sudan: The Looming Collapse of Peace in The Country
SSNA, 20 September 2023
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Oil Executives On Trial Over South Sudan War Crimes
The former CEO of Swedish oil company Lundin Oil, now known as Orron Energy, is going on trial together with the firm's ex-vice president in Stockholm on Tuesday, with both defendants accused of complicity in war crimes committed in Sudan under the regime of Omar al-Bashir.
The alleged crimes occurred between 1999 and 2003, with the two men accused of asking the Sudanese government to put its military in charge of security at one of Lundin Oil's exploration fields in 1999 in South Sudan.
Prosecutors say this later led to "aerial bombardments from transport planes, shooting civilians from helicopter gunships, abducting and plundering civilians and burning entire villages and their crops."
They argue that the two former executives were complicit because they knew Sudan's government would take control of the area by "military force."
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