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Swiss authorities are willing to prosecute Swiss economic actors for war crime of pillage, according to an op-ed by Attorney General Stefan Blättler in the newspaper Le Temps, published on July 13th, 2022. Our director Philip Grant explains why this announcement is groundbreaking  

FACTS From 2002 to 2008, BNPP was the primary foreign bank of the Sudanese government. During this time, Sudanese government forces and its militia called the Janjaweed were engaged in an armed conflict with rebel groups. They systematically targeted civilians belonging to the same non-Arab ethnic groups as the rebels (particularly the Masalit, Fur and Zaghawa), in D...