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Article: Worldwide Shell boycott.(Shell Oil; Nigeria executes Niger Delta environmental protester/writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 others)
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- The Progressive
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- January 1, 1996
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Washington, D.C.
Instant cries of condemnation from around the world and a boycott of Shell Oil followed the Nigerian military government's swift execution of Nigerian writer and human-rights activist, Ogoni tribesman, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight fellow minority-rights activists.
Saro-Wiwa led the campaign against Shell's devastation of the Niger Delta, the Ogoni homeland. He and his colleagues were demanding just compensation for the local populations and cleanup of the pollution caused by thirty years of oil operations in the region. Despite international protest, the activists were executed by Nigeria's General Sani Abacha on ...