International SQUALL

Saro-Wiwa Execution Defended In US

Squall 12, Spring 1996, pg. 51.

Adverts defending the execution of Nigerian human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, placed by the families of those he allegedly killed, are being paid for by the Nigerian Government, Nigerian opposition groups have claimed.

The adverts, placed in The New York Times, stated: “Thousands of Ogoni people believe that justice prevailed.” They were paid for by a foundation based in Philadelphia, formed by the eldest sons of each of the four victims of the murders for which Saro-Wiwa was hanged.

The editor of a Nigerian Opposition newspaper said that the foundation was a front for the Nigerian military rulers.