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From the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
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As Big Oil made its play for the White House this week, 35 desperate Nigerians took 165 employess of the Shell Oil company hostage in the Niger Delta. They demanded employment with the company and compensation for extracting oil from their land. Another hostage taking event will barely register as a blip on the radar screen for most Americans, but for the Ogoni life is little more than a struggle to survive. The oil rich delta of the Niger River has yielded them nothing more, it would seem, than misery. Several hundred people were killed in the delata in mid-July in an explosion at an oil pipeline whilke panning for oil from pipelines as the price is too prohibitive for them to buy on the 'open market'.
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