Word: ogonis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
Members of the Nigerian Advocacy Group for Democracy (NAGD) and Cambridge activists demonstrated en masse, mourning last year's slaying of nine Ogoni activists, including playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa...
Human rights groups have denounced Saro-Wiwa's trial as a sham that was meant to quiet Ogoni demands for compensation...
Shell's 30-year-old enterprise in Ogoni land has devastated the environment and sparked the peaceful resistance of which Saro-Wiwa was a leading voice...