CANSA: NIGERIA, SHELL, OPPRESSION AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION (fwd)

[Robert Weissman <rob@essential.org>]

  THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST NEO-LIBERALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA
  INVITES YOU TO AN OPEN MEETING
  
  NIGERIA, SHELL, OPPRESSION AND 
  ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION
  
  Ledum Mitee
  
  DATE:     Tuesday, 26 August 1997
  TIME:      12.30 - 2.00
  PLACE:   EAB, 7th fl West Wing, Auckland House, 
                 cnr Smit & Biccard, Braamfontein
  
  Ledum Mitee will talk on the oppression of the Ogoni people in
  Nigeria under the military dictatorship of Sani Abacha. He will
  highlight the role of multinational oil companies and, in
  particular, the links between Shell and the military dictatorship
  in the exploitation of oil in the Ogoni region. He will stress the
  negative impact on the Ogoni people, the destruction of their
  land and environment, resistance by the Ogoni people and
  repression and human rights abuses by the military
  dictatorship.  
  
  Mitee is President of the Movement for the Survival of the
  Ogoni People (MOSOP). He is an advocate by profession and
  was Deputy President of MOSOP under Ken Saro-Wiwa before
  Saro-Wiwa's execution. Mitee shared a cell and went on trial
  with Saro-Wiwa. He was one of two acquitted in the trial and is
  currently in exile in Great Britain. He is in South Africa as part of
  a tour of Commonwealth countries to lobby support for the
  motion to expel Nigeria from the Commonwealth.
   
  (For further information, contact Sam Maredi or George Dor at
  648 9117,
  or Richard Sherman at 403 7666)
  
  PLEASE DISPLAY AND CIRCULATE