US jury finds French bank BNP Paribas liable for damages for enabling Sudan atrocities

A New York jury on Friday found BNP Paribas liable for more than $20 million in damages to three Sudanese refugees, now US citizens, who argued that the French bank helped prop former strongman Omar al-Bashir’s regime during its brutal campaigns, conducted by Sudanese soldiers and the Janjaweed militia, against unarmed civilians. 

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