Nigeria News - Royal Dutch Shell to go on trial in New York over complicity in the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others
Royal Dutch Shell to go on trial in New York over complicity in the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others
Multi-National Royal Dutch Shell is to go on trial in New York today. Shell has been accused of complicity in the execution of aKen Saro-Wiwa and eight others in 1995. Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian activist who led criticism of exploitation by oil companies in Ogoni, his homeland. He was executed on November 10, 1995. Two lawsuits accused Shell and Brian Anderson, the former managing director of Shell Nigeria of complicity in the decision by the military government to hang the men. The son of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr said "In a sense we already have a victory, because one of the things my father said was that Shell would one day have its day in court.
The case is being seen as a test to determine if transnational companies owned or operating in the US can be held responsible for human rights abuses committed overseas.
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