Word: ogonis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, November 10, 1995, the world lost another great leader--Ken Saro-Wiwa; a leading human rights activist and environmental crusader for the Ogoni people of southeastern Nigeria. He was awarded the 1995 Goldman Environmental Prize and was also nominated for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize...
...Saro-Wiwa was murdered by the Nigerian government after a mock trial in which he was sentenced to death by a specially constituted military tribunal in blatant disregard for all civil and judicial procedure. His death is but the latest outrage against the Ogoni people, who struggle against economic disenfranchisement by the military government and its greatest supporter, the multinational corporation Anglo-Dutch Shell...
Some speakers at the event also called on Harvard to divest its stock in the Shell oil company, which Saro-Wiwa had criticized for exploiting the Ogoni people and polluting their land with oil spills...
Saro-Wiwa, a nominee for the 1996, Nobel Peace Prize, was one of nine members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People hanged after a murder trial that was widely condemned as unfair by the world community...
...memo from the Nigerian Government to Shell Nigeria, a large commercial driller in the region, suggested the doing away with or "wasting" Ogoni leaders...