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...resolution comes in the wake of last week's executions of political activists in Nigeria. The military regime in Nigeria, which seized power in 1993, hanged 11 activists, including environmentalist, poet and 1996 Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa. The executions have received worldwide condemnation...
According to Abiola, whose father has been jailed since the military regime seized power, Saro-wiwa was lobbying for government sanctions against Shell when he was jailed and executed...
...military government of Nigeria hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, a prominent author and critic of the regime, along with eight others who had been accused with him of involvement in the murder of four pro-government leaders last year. Saro-Wiwa maintained his innocence to the end; his supporters say he and his co-defendants were framed. After the executions, the U.S. and several other countries withdrew their ambassadors, and the Commonwealth nations of Britain and its former colonies, meeting in New Zealand, suspended Nigeria...
Also attending the vigil on the steps of Widener library was Omo Omoruyi, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, who initiated Nigeria's Democratic transtion program. "[Saro Wiwa] was my classmate; bright, intelligent, a man of peace," Omoruvi said. "His death should not have been the was it was, but he is gone...
...vigil concluded with a reading by Hafshat Abiola '96, daughter of the democratically elected President of Nigeria, M.K.O Abiola, who she has not heard from since he was arrested in June 1993. She read part of the closing statement Saro-Wiwa made at his trial...