Word: nigerians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After the last two decades of the fantastic growth of corruption...people just feel you might as well get on the gravy train," said Larry Diamond, a Nigerian specialist and senior research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institute...
Since independence in 1960, there have been 10 Nigerian heads of state--seven of them military dictators who came to power through . The country's population is 100 million, divided into many ethnic groups left by the British colonialists in live together as best they could in the borders of a single state...
...petitions will call the attention of the Nigerian government to what's happening and to the fact that it's not in accord with the United Nations statement of rights," said Stephen V. David '96, spokesperson for the Nigeria and Kenya Committee of Amnesty International at Harvard...
...want to raise public awareness with the petitions and also get people to write personal letters to the Nigerian government showing concern and letters of support to Saro-Wiwa," David added...
...memo from the Nigerian Government to Shell Nigeria, a large commercial driller in the region, suggested the doing away with or "wasting" Ogoni leaders...