The Observer: Nigeria: campaigners won’t let Saro-Wiwa die
Sunday June 26, 2005
People living in the shadow of Shell refineries and pipelines will be converging on the oil giant’s annual meetings in London and The Hague this week in order to draw attention to its record on pollution and human rights.
Community representatives and environmental campaigners from Siberia to Texas, and from Nigeria to the Philippines, will be among those seeking to put polite but embarrassing questions to Shell’s board this week.
Co-ordinated by Friends of the Earth, it’s an increasingly well-organised – and impatient – campaign, which this year marks the tenth anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s death.