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Kudirat Abiola openly criticized the military government of Gen. Sani Abacha. Her husband, a millionaire who was widely believed to have won Nigeria's nullified 1993 presidential election, was jailed on a charge of treason in 1994 after trying to take office...
...British government yesterday called for Abacha's government to promptly and thoroughly investigate the killings...
...Muammar Gaddafi, who, the official Libyan news agency reports, pledged that Libya will give the Nation of Islam a cool billion to expand its role in electoral politics? (The money has yet to be delivered.) Or his plea to Nigerian human-rights advocates to give strongman General Sani Abacha three more years to fulfill his long-delayed promise to return the country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without trial of hundreds of pro-democracy activists and the execution...
THUG OF THE YEAR: Sani Abacha, leader and executioner of shell-shocked Nigerians. Runner-up: Ratko Mladic, the Serb who makes Milosevic look like a moderate...
...intransigence of Nigeria's military leaders towards global opinion is not surprising. General Sani Abacha, Nigeria's dictator, and other military leaders have profited enormously from oil revenues reaped by Shell's exploitation of Saro-Wiwa's homeland and other parts of the country. To ensure continued profits from the oil industry, the military government of Nigeria instituted a crackdown resulting in the deaths of over 2,000 of Saro-Wiwa's tribes people. In 1993, during the transition from military to civil government, Abacha imprisoned Chief Moshood Abiola, the democratically chosen president, declaring the election invalid...