Word: ogonis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...military dictatorship responded to the resistance with 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...
Violence by the government escalated after Shell expressed concern over its stability. A memo from the Rivers State Internal Security Task Force, dated May 12, 1994, states: "Shell operations [are] still impossible unless ruthless military operations are undertaken." The memo also recommended the "wasting" of Ogoni leaders...
...days later, on May 22, 1994, Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested for the alleged murder of four Ogoni activists, charges so ridiculous that Amnesty International declared him a "prisoner of conscience"--a person held captive for his political beliefs. Saro-Wiwa was tortured and held without trial or medical attention for several months. On Oct. 31, 1995, after an unfair trial, Saro-Wiwa was sentenced to death. He was executed on Now. 10, 1995, despite calls for clemency from the international community...
...notorious history of the military dictatorship of Nigeria connected to the ivy-covered walls of prestigious Harvard? Shell's economic support of that government, combined with its active lobbying for repression of the Ogoni, binds it to the shameful execution of Saro-Wiwa. And a report of the Security and Exchange Commission discloses that the President and Fellows of Harvard College have invested $34 million in Shell...
...investing in the political repression of the Ogoni people, Harvard weakens its educational mission and contributes to social regression. I ask the Corporation to remove this ugly stain from our intellectual community and our legacy, to wash our hands of the deplorable execution of the modern hero Ken Saro-Wiwa and to divest all $34 million from Shell...