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...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...
...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...
...invested in Shell Oil--a world leader in environmental destruction and human rights abuses. Shell Oil's dubious relationship with the military government of Nigeria has led to the importation of arms and paying the military to suppress local civilian opposition, the execution of Nobel peace laureate Ken Saro-wiwa and eight others for speaking out against its oil drilling operations, and environmental destruction which has caused pollution levels in Nigeria 700 times higher than their operations in Europe...
...coup and maintained his grip on Africa's most populous and oil-rich nation by canceling free elections and silencing critics through imprisonment or execution; from an apparent heart attack; in Abuja, Nigeria. Perhaps Abacha's most notorious act as President was hanging the playwright and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight associates accused of treason...