1.0 link 213352 <![CDATA[Shell's Settlement Doesn't Hide Unsettling Reality in Nigeria]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-kretzmann/shells-settlement-doesnt_b_213352.html After thirteen years and countless hours by lawyers, community members, and activists around the world, Royal Dutch Shell finally settled the Wiwa v Shell case in a New York court for $15.5 million.

Plaintiffs in the case, which included Ken Saro-Wiwa Jr., and the families of other Ogoni men hanged in November 1995, charged that the Royal Dutch/Shell company, its Nigerian subsidiary, and the former chief of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson, with complicity in the torture, killing, and other...

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