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...joint venture operated by Shell in Nigeria is responsible for 70 percent of the Nigerian state's revenues. The U.S. buys nearly half of Nigerian oil exports; even though this amounts to less than 10 percent of overall American oil imports. Instead of taking the obvious and most effective measure of an oil embargo on Nigeria, the U.S. and other world governments have preferred to launch futile paper arrows at the Nigerian government through "quiet diplomacy...
...Undergraduate Council made a bold statement on November 19 regarding Harvard's association with the economic roots of the crisis in Nigeria. The council passed a resolution, with no opposition, calling for complete divestment of the University from oil companies presently investing in Nigeria. The resolution also requests that President Neil L. Rudenstine sign letters to Shell Oil condemning the executions which were clearly motivated by oil interests...
There has been no official response from the President's office to the council resolution. Are we to interpret this as a sign of complete indifference to the continued abuse of human rights in Nigeria...
Have no doubt that there is a real possibility of an impending cataclysm in Nigeria whose implications would reverberate across the globe and certainly cut off the oil exports that the U.S. and the European Union are so reluctant to boycott...
Should that dark day become a reality, the tragic loss of human life in Nigeria shall dwarf the Rwandan genocide. Only then shall the international community begin to bicker about how best to alleviate the expanding human catastrophe. In 1990, Shell oil's request for police protection for its installations instigated the Umuechem massacre in which hundreds of villagers were butchered to death. Even at this moment seventeen more environmental activists face the death penalty. That is why we argue that Shell Oil is Nigerian blood...