[Peace-discuss] $15 mil settlement in Wiwa vs Shell

[Neil Parthun]

http://rebelreports.com/post/120143061/breaking-15-million-settlement- 
in-wiwa-vs-shell-oil

Today, the parties in Wiwa v. Shell agreed to settle human rights  
claims charging the Royal Dutch/Shell company, its Nigerian  
subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC or Shell  
Nigeria), and the former head of its Nigerian operation, Brian  
Anderson, with complicity in the torture, killing, and other abuses  
of Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa and other non-violent Nigerian  
activists in the mid-1990s in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta.

The settlement, whose terms are public, provides a total of $15.5  
million.  These funds will compensate the 10 plaintiffs, who include  
family members of the deceased victims; establish a Trust intended to  
benefit the Ogoni people; and cover a portion of plaintiffs’ legal  
fees and costs. The settlement is only on behalf of the individual  
plaintiffs for their individual claims.  It does not resolve  
outstanding issues between Shell and the Ogoni people, and the  
plaintiffs did not negotiate on behalf of the Ogoni people.

Solidarity,
   -N.

Neil Parthun
   Sports/politics writer, UC-IMC || www.ucimc.org

"There are many victories worse than a defeat." - George Eliot

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