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14 Apr 2005

Author:
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation

Ogoni: Nigerian Bulldozers Smash Shanty Town in Oil City

Government bulldozers rolled in to smash hundreds of homes and a church in a Nigerian shanty town backing onto a site run by...[Nigerian Agip Oil Company, joint venture Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, ENI, ConocoPhillips]...no effort has been made to find homes for its thousands of residents, local rights activists said...the firm insisted that it had nothing to do with the demolition.

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