Tyranny unabated
The military ambury regime in Nigeria contin m orpressive tread. It has charged Sao" members of the Ogoni ethnic amunitv of complicity in the ode. of four Ogoni chiefs for which a S4ro-%%'iwa and eight others were be.-A To death (See Down to Earth, Vol 14, No 14).
Tlist s@:cusecl, already in detention, ctrr@aed to appear before the same me"- which sentenced Ken Saroan and his colleagues to death, in wwv wit year. Nigeria, which went od with the executions inspite of wasnonal protests, will have to face w vocrierous calls for global oil sancis jad international blacklisting. The bead of the Internal Security im m the region, Major Obi Abel m1k beheves that "unnecessary senw h*% been built" into the whole 6r ei executions. His troops have ir &rucended into Ogoni villages, MV, key road junctions and are p4movel1mv the access to them. For even wearing black has been ghpaW as they are beaten up for Ift a pofitical statement.