THE NEW YORK TIMES
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: June 28, 2009
In the editorial Ending a Shell Game (June 24) you argue that Shells out-of-court settlement with Nigerian plaintiffs in Manhattan earlier this month saved costly embarrassment and the public airing of evidence of collusion and human rights abuses by the company in Nigeria. We see the matter differently.
We knew the charges against us were not true. And we were confident that the evidence would have shown this that Shell was not responsible for the tragic events of Nov. 10, 1995. The execution of nine leaders of the Ogoni people shocked us all. And we wanted others to see and understand that.