10 Years After Saro-Wiwa Execution, New Evidence of Human Rights Violations in Oil-Rich Niger Delta.

international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press Thursday November 10, 2005 14:48 by Amnesty International USA 212/633-4247

It is like paradise and hell. They have everything. We have nothing.

NEW YORK - November 7 - It is like paradise and hell. They have everything. We have nothing... If we protest, they send soldiers.'' Eghare W.O. Ojhogar, chief of the Ugborodo community.

''I was told to kneel down on the beach with some of the chiefs and their hands were tied behind their backs. Then the soldiers started beating them with horsewhips, and told us to eat sand.'' Cadbury George Omieh, Igno XXI, Amanyanabo (King) of Odioma.