Word: wiwa
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During that struggle, Soyinka’s colleague, Ken Saro-Wiwa, who advocated the autonomy of the Ogoni people and fair distribution of the nation’s wealth, was arrested on false charges of treason and murder and hanged with eight of his companions...
...unethical labor practices in the mid-1990s, Big Oil long resisted calls to clean up its act. BP and Shell were the first to change. In Shell's case, the firm was shaken by two scandals in quick succession: the execution in 1995 of Nigerian poet Ken Saro-Wiwa, who vigorously contested Shell's oil operations in Nigeria, and the company's plans that same year to sink the Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests and boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp of Shell's ethical...
...giant Shell in New York. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the company must face a suit that alleges it took land without paying proper compensation, polluted the environment and paid local police to suppress opposition. The suit also alleges that Shell companies fabricated evidence against activists Ken Saro-Wiwa and John Kpuinen, who were hanged...
...pursuit of justice continues to this day, and even into our own society. Dr. Owens Wiwa filed a civil suit in the United States of America shortly after his brother's execution in 1995. Wiwa accuses Shell of effecting a holocaust against his people, alleging that they are guilty of summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, arbitrary arrest and detention, violations of the rights to life, liberty, security of person, and peaceful assembly, wrongful death, assault and battery, intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress and conspiracy...
While I do not believe that justice was served in the Saro-Wiwa case any more than Ken Saro-Wiwa did--he felt the trial such a farce that he read a newspaper as the most damning testimonies were deposed against him in court--this decision frightens me. A system of accountability for the actions of multinational actors like Royal Dutch/Shell is most certainly needed, yet such a legal forum should not be entirely American. While I respect the American system--a society that produces the entertainment of Erin Brockovitch is infinitely preferable to live in than one that produces...