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Shell paid out $15.5 Million over Saro-Wiwa Murder (tags)

Shell pressured the Nigerian government to hang Saro-Wiwa and 8 other nonviolent environmental activists. Ken Saro-Wiwa was nominated for a Nobel Prize in 1996. Besides his work to protect the Niger Delta, he was an author. Saro-Wiwa's son Ken Wiwa wrote In The Shadow of a Saint about his father. Richard North Patterson wrote a fictionalized account of Shell's role in the murder in the book Eclipse.

Nov 10 - Ogoni Day - solidarity against petroleum pollution (tags)

This Nov 10th people can remind both Chevron-Texaco and BP Shell that we won't forget the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and other Ogoni activists ten years ago by the Nigerian government who choose petroleum profit bribes over human rights and the Niger delta ecosystem..

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