Well Researched Info on Nigeria

From: dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:59:00

Perhaps some day TOTAL will be found guilty of direct and indirect

violations of human rights and obliged to remunerate the victims in a

human rights damage settlement involving billions of dollars, equal to

and more than the sum of what they have already invested in the

regime-partnered project. Since the world knows well enough what's going

on, anything less than that is sheer hypocrisy. Is Burma headed to a

Mandela turn the page and forget the past, heal the wounds solution, or

more on the lines of what's now going down in Nigeria. Something to

think about. Or will TOTAL and the FRench try to broker a deal in their

best interests, a peace and profits deal. Who knows? In any case, the

Nigerian example should not be overlooked as a sign of the

times.Remember, apart from Shell, Nigerian drug gangs were high on the

list of world drug traffickers.

MOSOP International Secretariat wrote:

      Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP)

     27 Odu Street, Ogbunabali, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

     Ph/fax (+234) 84 230 250 e-mail: mosop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

   Press release 13th August 1999

   MOSOP Files 8,000 cases before Human Rights Panel

 The Nigerian Human Rights group MOSOP, today filed a massive record of

 human rights abuses which have occurred in the south western region of

 Ogoni since 1990. The submission includes testimony of over 3000

 serious incidents, primarily at the hands of the Rivers State Internal

 Security Task Force which occupied Ogoni between 1994 and 1998.