On Thursday, Nov. 11, prosecutors in Sweden indicted two Lundin Oil executives for complicity in war crimes perpetrated in Sudan, between the years of 1999 and 2003. Chairman Ian Lundin and former CEO Alex Schneiter reportedly called upon the Sudanese government to “secure a potential oilfield, knowing this would mean seizing the area by force.” In so doing, Swedish prosecutors say that Lundin Energy (Lundin Oil has been renamed twice since 2003) is complicit in the resulting massacres. In a statement, prosecutors explained their position: "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.” These indictments come after a 2010 report by watchdog activists European Coalition on Oil in Sudan, pointed to Lundin, along with other oil companies, as instigators in the growing violence of Sudan’s ongoing civil war between Christian and Muslim areas of the country.  Read more