Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa. Demo outside Shell HQ

dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Tuesday November 10, 2009 12:01 by Big_Ron - Dublin Shell to Sea dublins2s at gmail dot com 086 7362417

Campaigners from Mayo and Dublin will be holding a demo to mark the anniversary of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 of his comrades in 1995 today outside Shell HQ from 11am on.

Today is the 14th anniversery of the murder of Ken Saro-Wiwa. On November 10th 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his colleagues were hanged by the Nigerian military government for campaigning against the devastation of their homeland the Niger Delta by oil companies, in particular Shell. Ken was an activist, writer and businessman and became the iconic leader of the minority Ogoni people’s struggle for environmental and social justice in Nigeria.