Rights groups: Shell funded Nigerian militants, was complicit in executions of activists

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Source: Raw Story

Suit: Shell complicit in execution of Nigerian rights activist
Stephen C. Webster
Published: Wednesday April 8, 2009

A landmark human rights lawsuit, accusing Royal Dutch Shell of complicity in the execution of author and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa some 14 years ago, will proceed to trial in a New York courtroom.

The Center for Constitutional Rights and Earth Rights International, along with Mr. Wiwa's son, allege the International oil company "financed, armed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military forces that used deadly force and conducted massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta."

They claim Shell was complicit in the 1995 military executions of nine activist leaders, including Ken Saro-Wiwa.

"Shell began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958," the groups say on a new Web site dedicated to promoting the suit. "After more than 30 years of environmental devastation and exploitation by Shell, a popular nonviolent movement of the Ogoni people developed in the early 1990s in opposition to its presence in the region. At the request of Shell, and with Shell’s assistance and financing, Nigerian soldiers used deadly force and massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people throughout the early 1990s to repress the growing movement against the oil company."

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Suit_Shell_complicit_in_execution_of_0408.html

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1. I wonder what's going on in Iraq with this same type of thing

:cry:

[pmorlan1]

2. Thank you

Thanks for posting this information. I added their website to my blog

http://wwwdemocracity.blogspot.com/

These U.S. multinationals have so much clout that it's really hard to beat them but hopefully this case will prove to be the one that will stop them in their tracks.

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3. THis is groundbreaking and fantastic.

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4. ,,,off to the greatest page.....

K&R