Dear All
Sorry for the lack of text in the previous message. Here's what I
meant to send.
The Big Issue Scotland (16-22 Jan 1996)
'Shell backs down in wake of Big Issue revelation'
Shell has withdrawn a complaint about a Channel 4 documentary
critical of it's activities in Nigeria in the wake of a shocking
report by The Big Issue in Scotland.
The climbdown came in the same week as we exposed that the oil giant
made payments to the military in Ongoniland.
After 18 months of denials Shell admitted that it paid 'field
allowances' to the military though it refutes that the soldiers it
paid were responsible for the death or injury of Ogoni people.
John Willis, director of programmes for Channel 4 described the u-turn
as a humiliating climb-down. He stated that Shell could not refute
claims made about the company in documnetary called Delta Force,
first shown in 1995.
Steve
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Steven Cummins, MRC Research Student
MRC Medical Sociology Unit, 6 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow, G12 8RZ
Tel: (0141) 357 3949 ext 248 Fax: (0141) 337 2389
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