Word: ogoniland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1958, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria has conducted extensive oil drilling operations that have yielded 900 million barrels of crude oil from the land in which they live, known as Ogoniland. The World Bank reports that Nigeria suffers about 300 major oil spills a year, turning the "breadbasket of Nigeria" into a blackened and largely infertile wasteland...
...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...
...brutal violence. The Summer 1993 issue of Earth Island Journal reports that a single Ogoni demonstration in 1990 resulted in the destruction of 495 homes and the murder of 80 people by the Nigerian Mobile Police. Since then, scores of villages have been raided and hundreds more Ogoni murdered. Ogoniland has been shut off and placed under martial...
...stand behind the mission of social justice, because it is more integral to Harvard's educational goal. A divestment of $34 million will probably have no serious economic repercussions for Harvard. But the University seriously compromises its educational mission by sponsoring repression and environmental damage in Ogoniland...
Pressure increased in November after the Nigerian government executed playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists from Ogoniland after convicting them of murder...