The arrest of two Swedish journalists in Ethiopia has put allegedly unethical, or even criminal activities by oil companies in the spotlight...The events have also added fuel to the debate over Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's involvement in oil company Lundin Petroleum...Between 1997 and 2003 Lundin Petroleum was active in the area, now recognized as South Sudan but which was then torn apart by civil war between the central government in Khartoum and rebel forces. During this period, the government used similar genocidal tactics to those used in the Darfur area, driving the population away in order to secure oil resources. These they then exploited together with Lundin...With the case of the two detained journalists, however, a new layer has been added to the affair. The journalists, it turned out, were going to Ogaden to investigate Lundin Petroleum and its subsidiaries' business there, and could therefore potentially have unearthed information that would be damaging to Bildt.