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The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People has struggled against the degradation of their lands by Shell Oil in Nigeria. On 10 November 1995 9 activists from the movement, among them the playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, were hanged by the Nigerian government. The Shell Oil Company asked the Nigerian government for clemency towards those found guilty, but its request was refused.

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Ogoni's Agonies: Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Crisis in Nigeria
by: Abdul-Rasheed Na'Allah
01 June, 1998

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Ogoni: The struggle continues
by: Deborah Robinson
1996

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Oil, conflict, and security in rural Nigeria: Issues in the Ogoni crisis (Occasional paper series)
by: Okechukwu Ibeanu
1997

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