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Rarely is human society graced by a person whose heroic courage and raw emotional power move so many people that he threatens to crumble the walls of injustice. Three years ago, the free world was shocked when the Nigerian military dictatorship executed one such hero, the Ogoni Nigerian Ken Saro-Wiwa. The Ogoni people of Nigeria live in an oil-rich and once-fertile land, but they are a national minority susceptible to governmental abuse...
...Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) formed to protest these conditions, with Ken Saro-Wiwa as its leader. The peaceful resistance movement sought to raise awareness of the plight of the Ogoni and Ogoniland. It was through this movement that Saro-Wiwa earned his global reputation as a peaceful demonstrator for human rights and environmental responsibility...
...days later, on May 22, 1994, Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested for the alleged murder of four Ogoni activists, charges so ridiculous that Amnesty International declared him a "prisoner of conscience"--a person held captive for his political beliefs. Saro-Wiwa was tortured and held without trial or medical attention for several months. On Oct. 31, 1995, after an unfair trial, Saro-Wiwa was sentenced to death. He was executed on Now. 10, 1995, despite calls for clemency from the international community...
...investing in the political repression of the Ogoni people, Harvard weakens its educational mission and contributes to social regression. I ask the Corporation to remove this ugly stain from our intellectual community and our legacy, to wash our hands of the deplorable execution of the modern hero Ken Saro-Wiwa and to divest all $34 million from Shell...
...impeachment process appears to be fragmenting still further. When House Judiciary chair Henry Hyde turned down a White House request to question Ken Starr for more than 30 minutes during the independent counsel's public appearance Thursday, he warned the President's lawyers not to probe Starr on "nongermane matters." In other words, Hyde said, no investigating the investigator: All questions must be restricted to his impeachment referral. But with spectacularly bad timing, Starr has dropped hints that he plans to step outside those bounds. His speech, aides told the New York Times, will roam beyond the Lewinsky matter before...