Some fair points are scored who, after all, is not angered by the fate of Nigeria's Ogoni, the destruction of the Amazon rain forest, or agribusinesses exploiting Europe's crazy agricultural policies?

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Local anger was most famously mobilised in the Ogoni area by opposition politician Ken Saro-Wiwa, but in all parts of the Delta protesters have blocked access roads, occupied production platforms and-on occasion-sabotaged pipelines.

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Forensic experts from the United States-based group Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) were invited to open the communal grave where the nine "Ogoni martyrs" were buried after being hanged by the military government of Sani Abacha in 1995.

BBC: Dispute over Ogoni activists' reburial

The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) and the Wiwa family have exchanged a series of angry press releases, in a feud which appears to hinge on an invitation to foreign forensic experts to exhume the bodies.

BBC: Dispute over Ogoni activists' reburial

On the subject of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, a campaigner for minority rights, the head of the task-force responsible for oppressing Mr Saro-Wiwa's people, the Ogoni, said bluntly that he would do it all again, despite more than 8, 000 depositions by Ogoni before the panel.

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