On November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other MOSOP leaders were executed by Nigerian military personnel.
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MOSOP (Movement for the Survivial for the Ogoni People) fought against the unregulated and illegal activities of oil companies such as Shell.
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In 1993, Saro-Wiwa and 8 other MOSOP chiefs were arrested and tried for the murder of 4 Ogoni chiefs.
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The secret trial and conviction of Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues, the failure to allow an appeal and the subsequent murders of the 9 men showed the many flaws of our then military-regime.
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Today, 20 years later, Nigerians all over the world remember the legend of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
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Many are angered by the Nigerian Customs refusal to allow the art piece in honour of Saro-Wiwa into the country.
The Bus memorial to Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other 8 Ogoni men was made by artist Sokari Douglas Camp in 2006.
Saro-Wiwa’s supporters are also calling for a posthumous pardon.
His son, Ken Saro-Wiwa junior, continues to speak on his father’s legacy.
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While the Ogoni people have won 2 landmark cases against Shell, the multinational is yet to clean up Ogoniland and the Niger Delta region.
Ken Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995), a true Nigerian hero.
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