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5 years
ago, Ken Saro Wiwa was executed. He was a
well known Nigerian author and television producer and
president of the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People
(MOSOP), an organization set up to defend the environmental
and human rights of the Ogoni people who live in the Niger
Delta.
Shell Oil Company entered Ogoni land in 1958. To
date, the corporation has taken some 900 million barrels of
oil worth some 30 billion US dollars and still wants more. The
Ogoni have seen nearly none of the financial benefits of the
oil, having no running water, no electricity and improper
government health services. However, their land has been
ruined by oil blowouts, gas flaring and other oil operations.
Shell has waged ecological war against the Ogoni
people
Working closely with Shell, the Nigerian
dictatorship government hung Ken and eight others on Nov 10,
1995.
Ken's last words
were:
"Lord take my soul. The struggle continues."
And so it
does.
JOIN DR. OWENS
WIWA - KEN'S BROTHER,
ELIZABETH MAY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE SIERRA CLUB
OF CANADA, AND SISTER MCCARRON, LONG TIME HUMAN RIGHTS
WORKER AND FRIEND OF KEN'S,
FOR AN EVENING OF REMEMBRANCE, SOLIDARITY,
AND IMAGERY.
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