Showing posts with label Saro. Show all posts
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Monday, December 31, 2012

Inside The Secret Abacha Memo Approving Execution Of Ken Saro - Wiwa, Others





Source: Premium Times
In November 1995, while an overwhelming international outcry mounted against the execution of the Ogoni leader, Ken Saro-Wiwa and his colleagues, defiant military dictator, Sani Abacha, backed by a small band of military officers, convinced themselves that executing them, swiftly, was the best way to resolve the Ogoni unrest “once and for all”, and to make it clear to Nigerians and the world the authoritarian regime was no weakling.

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