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Rights groups remember Saro-Wiwa

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    A Nigerian advocacy group, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, has called for the trial of those linked to the hanging on 10 November 1995 of nine Ogoni rights activists condemned by a military tribunal and for the government to make a public apology.

    In a statement on Tuesday, the NGO said Nigeria’s new democracy would remain tainted “if the murderers” of the nine, among them rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, were not tried.

    In a tribute to Saro-Wiwa, a London-based Nigerian rights group, the Southern Minorities Movement for Advancement, said he “etched on the consciousness of the world a living body of rational ideas about our rights, our environment and the simple most powerful gift of principles and courage in the face of calculating savagery”.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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