Sudan: How Lundin’s Filmed Trip in Sudan Backfired in Court

Martin Schibbye (in Stockholm, Sweden)

This Tuesday February 4, Alexandre Schneiter’s interrogation has started in Stockholm, where two former directors of the Swedish oil company Lundin are tried for complicity in war crimes in Sudan. Before him, until last week, his co-defendant Ian Lundin developed his version of the events, supported back in 2001 by a filmed trip to Sudan with a journalist. But two decades after, the film backfired in court.

March 2001. Speeding away from Lundin’s base camp in…