The New York Time's M. Gessen writes an opinion piece on Sweden's longest criminal trial. Characterizing the often mundane hearings as "the most ambitious effort since Nuremberg to hold corporate executives accountable for alleged complicity in war crimes." The trial examines the actions of oil company executives working to succeed in the war-torn Sudan in the 1990s.

They were there in southern Sudan, they wrote the reports, they saw the bodies being buried. Yet 25 years later, in the #Lundin trial in Stockholm (Sweden), the oil company's former security chiefs remember almost nothing.

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-- Justice Info (@justiceinfo.bsky.social) Nov 13, 2025 at 6:26 AM