Talisman

Lundin Oil övertogs 2001 av det kanadensiska bolaget Talisman Energy, enligt artikel i Aftonbladet.
Presbyterianska kyrkan i Sudan anklagade Talisman för folkmord, ett ärende som nu slutgiltigt avgjorts.
Ärendet väcktes 2001, avgjordes 2006 till Talismans fördel, överklagades 2007 och fastställdes slutgiltigt 2.10.2009. ECOS rapport juni 2010 har troligen samband med Kerstin Lundells vistelse i området nyligen och hennes bok från februari.


In 2001, the Presbyterian Church of Sudan, as well as a number of Sudanese individuals, filed suit in US federal court against Talisman Energy. They alleged the company’s complicity in the Sudanese Government’s human rights abuses against non-Muslim Sudanese living in the area of Talisman’s oil concession in southern Sudan and that these abuses amounted to genocide. The plaintiffs allege that the Sudanese Government was engaged in an armed campaign of ethnic cleansing against the non-Muslim Sudanese which included massive civilian displacement, extrajudicial killing of civilians, torture, rape and the burning of villages, churches and crops. The court granted Talisman's motion to dismiss on 12 September 2006 finding that the plaintiffs had failed to supply sufficient admissible evidence to permit the lawsuit to go to trial on the plaintiffs' claims. In February of 2007 plaintiffs appealed this dismissal to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On 2 October 2009, the Court of Appeals ruled on this case, and it affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the lawsuit. The Court of Appeals also found that to determine liability under the Alien Tort Claims Act the plaintiffs must show that the defendant "purposefully" aided and abetted a violation of international law. On 15 April 2010, the plaintiffs filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court asking the court to hear an appeal of the lower court's dismissal of the case. On 20 May 2010, EarthRights International filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging it to hear the appeal and overturn the dismissal of the case.