Through many of the articles that were read there was a message that was conveyed to me. The message was that the big Oil Corporation present in Nigeria has been one of the main causes in the human rights violations throughout the countryside. On a website called Corporate Watch there was an article by Tony McAuley that spoke of the corruption with the Nigerian govt. and how the wealthy corporation will pay the officials to take care of problems. In hi

military arrived opened fire without negotiations. They killed

Up until the mid 1990's the previous militant rule in Nigeria acted when money was brought forth. The only wealth in the country was the high govt. officials. Their wealth came from the theft of the nations oil income. The rest of the country was left in poverty, in fact Nigeria is considered to be one of the world's 25 poorest countries.

the protestors and then were given "special Duty" by chevron,

were abruptly called to remedy the situation. The police and

The Nigerian situation with the violation of human rights has been kept quite for so long because the US is their number one oil customer. If we ruined our relationship with them we would have an oil crisis. Hopefully with the new Nigerian leader in office the Nigerian people will have a better life and be able to see what democracy is like. Many Nigerians are use to militant rule and no rights whatsoever. Reading through all this information I felt like I was watching a movie were the corrupt govt. is taking payoff's from a rich pers

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