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...citizens remain in poverty. By the estimates of a 1991 government audit, $12 billion in oil revenues is simply unaccounted for--probably doled out to military leaders and elites. For his part, Abacha routinely imprisoned or executed his political opposition, including the writer and minority-rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was hanged in November 1995. Now Abacha has been replaced by another military leader, Major General Abdusalam Abubakar. It is still too early to know whether Abubakar is another dictator or a bridge between Abacha and democracy...
Last year Hafsat Abiola helped focus the Harvard campus on issues in Nigeria. She also protested the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists in Nigeria in 1995, according to Grewal, who also charged that Shell was complicit in the hangings...
Members of the Nigerian Advocacy Group for Democracy (NAGD) and Cambridge activists demonstrated en masse, mourning last year's slaying of nine Ogoni activists, including playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa...
...majority of Nigerian military money comes from oil, Simons said, adding that "it is generally well-accepted that if Shell wanted to stop the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, they could have...
Human rights groups have denounced Saro-Wiwa's trial as a sham that was meant to quiet Ogoni demands for compensation...