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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 06:50:03 -0800 (PST)
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NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE AFRICA FUND
OGONI
The Struggle Continues
by Dr. Deborah Robinson
published by the
World Council of Churches
106 pages - January 1997
"A quiet state of siege prevails even today in
Ogoniland. Intimidation, rape, arrests, torture,
shooting and looting by the soldiers continue to
occur."
Ogoni: The Struggle Continues
The Ogoni people of Nigeria have suffered extensive
environmental pollution and political repression under the
military dictatorship of General Sani Abacha. The Ogoni crisis
was catapulted onto the world stage in November 1995 when the
military government executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni
environmentalists who were members of the Movement for the
Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP). Now this struggle has
been exhaustively documented in a special report published by
the World Council of Churches, Ogoni: The Struggle Continues.
Written by Dr. Deborah Robinson of the WCC's Program to Combat
Racism, who visited Ogoniland in 1996, the report includes
detailed background on the economic and political situation in
Nigeria, a history of the military dictatorship and an extensive
review of the role of the oil industry in Nigeria's political
economy.
Ogoni: The Struggle Continues gives details of the role
played by the Nigerian authorities in the oppression of the
Ogoni. First-hand accounts of arrests, beatings and torture are
recounted."Ogoniland remains under military occupation," the
report notes. It confirms MOSOP's claims of environmental
devastation by Shell Petroleum Development Corporation. Robinson
relates accounts of the harassment and arrest of church leaders;
one minister told her about pastors who have been told what they
may preach and pray.
Please send me ____ copies of Ogoni: The Struggle
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