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Complete Statement by Ken Saro-Wiwa To Ogoni Civil Disturbances Tribunal in 1995
My name is Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa. I live at Simaseng Place, 9 Rumuibekwe Road, Port Harcourt. I am a writer,…
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Hmong in Isolation: Atrocities against the Hmong in Laos
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) has released a report documenting an increase in military attacks and repression of the Hmong…
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Shell, human rights abuses and the Ogoni Nine
Shell has a long history of environmental damage and human rights violations in Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta. For years,…
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“I’ll tell you this, I may be dead but my ideas will not die.” – Ken Saro-Wiwa, 1995
In 1990, Saro-Wiwa launched a non-violent movement for social and ecological justice in his Ogoni homeland and the Niger Delta.…
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Ogoni Development Authority
A PROPOSAL FOR A DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR OGONI, NIGERIA THROUGH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE OGONI DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY A. INTRODUCTION This…
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Introduction On October 24, 1945, in the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations came into being as an…
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Biography of Timothy Naakuu Paul Birabi: The Father of Modern Ogoni
Timothy Naakuu Paul Birabi is generally regarded as the father of modern Ogoni nationalism. He stamped his style on the…
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Ken Saro-Wiwa (1941-1995)
Kenule Beeson “Ken” Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and…
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Ogoni Mission Report 1995
MOSOP requested that UNPO send a mission to Ogoniland in May 1993. Around the same time Shell International’s representatives suggested…
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Ogoni 9 activists remembered 25 years on by Muhammad Bello
On November 10, 1995, nine Nigerian environmental activists accused of murder were executed by Sani Abacha’s military regime. Their deaths…
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