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Pressure increased in November after the Nigerian government executed playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists from Ogoniland after convicting them of murder...
Soon after Saro-Wiwa's execution, Hafsat Abiola convinced the Undergraduate Council to pass a resolution calling for University divestment from Nigeria...
...country to civilian rule? Moses, Farrakhan explained to the Nigerians, was also a dictator, and there are times when "stern discipline" is needed--presumably including the detention without trial of hundreds of pro-democracy activists and the execution on trumped-up charges of opposition leaders like Ken Saro-Wiwa. Farrakhan also praised the government of Sudan, which has slaughtered hundreds of thousands of people in a long-running civil war, for its "wise Islamic leadership." In Tehran he pledged to help the mullahs overthrow the "Great Satan," as the U.S. is known locally. Then he moved on to Iraq...
...students took issue with the company's alleged involvement in the execution of environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, the importation of weapons for the Nigerian police and environmental violations...
Freeman is also co-author of the Undergraduate Council's resolution protesting Harvard's investment in Shell and Shell's involvement with the execution of Saro-Wiwa...