02. MOSOP (2.45 min)

By Anonymous (not verified) , 14 October, 2005
Author
Magdalena

Ken Saro-Wiwa was convicted for inciting a riot, however his supporters claim his real crime was standing up for the rights of the Ogoni people, an ethnic group of some 550,000 farmers and fishermen living in the Niger Delta, where Shell struck oil in 1958. Shell’s oil exploitation was followed by decades of environmental destruction, public-health problems, and increasing poverty