“The truth is not hidden,” said Emmanuel Alozie, a mathematics teacher and activist. “Shell is as guilty as the Nigerian state.”
Shell is accused of abetting human rights violations and faces allegations of conspiring with Nigerian military personnel to commit crimes during the 1990s, notably the torture and execution of the “Ogoni Nine”—Barinem Kiobel, a former state government commissioner, Ken Saro-Wiwa and seven others arrested in May 1994 by the military regime. The U.S. Supreme Court heard Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) yesterday and is now ruling on this issue: Are corporations accountable for human rights abuses overseas?
Please share this under-reported story. Image and story by Pulitzer Center grantee Ameto Akpe. Nigeria, 2012. http://bit.ly/ShellKiobel
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