Contents: Repression in the Oil Fields • President's Wife Murdered • Local Government Candidates Removed, Tortured • Human Rights Witnesses Jailed • World Council of Churches Meet in Nigerian Crisis • Action To Save The Ogoni 19 • The report says one year after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other innocent environmental and human rights activists outraged world leaders from Nelson Mandela to Bill Clinton, the Nigerian military dictatorship continues its rule of violence and repression; an estimated 7 ,000 people have been jailed for their political views, including the winner of 1993 Presidential election, Moshood Abiola, statesman Olesegun Obasanjo, democracy leader Beko...
Contents: Repression in the Oil Fields • President's Wife Murdered • Local Government Candidates Removed, Tortured • Human Rights Witnesses Jailed • World Council of Churches Meet in Nigerian Crisis • Action To Save The Ogoni 19 • The report says one year after the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other innocent environmental and human rights activists outraged world leaders from Nelson Mandela to Bill Clinton, the Nigerian military dictatorship continues its rule of violence and repression; an estimated 7 ,000 people have been jailed for their political views, including the winner of 1993 Presidential election, Moshood Abiola, statesman Olesegun Obasanjo, democracy leader Beko Ransome-Kuti and trade unionists Frank Kokori and Milton Dabibi. The report includes a quote by Nigerian Methodist Bishop Sunday Mbang. The report mentions sanctions, Ogoniland, Shell Oil Company, Benin, squalid refugee camps, the New York City Council, bogus elections, candidates suspected of pro-democracy views, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, MOSOP (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), the Nigerian labor movement, he banning of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASAU), a strike, U.S. oil companies, Mobil Oil, Chevron, Africa Fund Nigeria Program Officer Michael Fleshman, the World Council of Churches (WCC), political prisoners, and silenced by oppression.
