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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
The Ogoni and Self-Determination: Increasing Violence in Nigeria
Contributor:
Welch, Claude E.
Published:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1995
Published in:
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 33 (1995) 4, Seite 635-650
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0022278x00021479
ISSN:
0022-278X;
1469-7777
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p><jats:sc>The</jats:sc>execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, noted advocate of rights for the Ogoni people of the Niger delta, who was hanged with eight of his colleagues in Port Harcourt on 10 November 1995, drew universal condemnation from governments, human rights organisations, and literary figures. Following the trial of these Ogoni activists, the Nigerian régime headed by General Sani Abacha decided that the verdict of the appointed tribunal should be endorsed and implemented without delay, despite an international campaign for clemency. In the view of many, Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike, an independent judicial court would not have found the accused guilty of the murder in May 1994 of the four prominent Ogoni who had been killed during a riotous rally. For the military administration, however, the claims for self-determination made by Saro-Wiwa had run counter to national policy, nOt least by having highlighted long-standing tensions between the country's ethnic mosaic and its political centralisation.</jats:p>