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Oct 31, 2008 USA/Nigeria: Chevron on Trial
Opening arguments began this week in federal court in San Francisco
in the landmark human rights case of Bowoto v. Chevron. Nineteen
plaintiffs, including survivor Larry Bowoto, are accusing Chevron
of collaboration with Nigerian military in brutal suppression of
a protest by unarmed villagers on a Chevron offshore oil platform
in the Niger Delta in 1998. Bowoto was shot during the protest; two
other protesters were killed.
Jul 16, 2008 Nigeria: Curse of the Black Gold
"This book lays out the dynamics of oil and development in Nigeria
and Africa. It reveals the complicity in this perfect storm of
international oil companies, foreign governments, corrupt
oil-producing states and U.S. consumers. ... the future of oil in
Nigeria is now in question in an unprecedented way. As we speak,
something like 25 percent of Nigerian oil is locked in or deferred
because of the attacks by militants." - Michael Watts
Feb 26, 2008 Nigeria: Prison System Report
"Nigeria's prisons are filled with people whose human rights are
systematically violated. Approximately 65 per cent of the inmates
are awaiting trial most of whom have been waiting for their trial
for years. Most of the people in Nigeria's prisons are too poor to
be able to pay lawyers, and only one in seven of those awaiting
trial have private legal representation." - Amnesty International
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