Blart
04-24-2012, 07:56 AM
Last week the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations cannot be sued under the Torture Victim Protection Act.
Today, the court turned away an appeal (http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/24/headlines/supreme_court_rejects_bid_by_nigerians_to_hold_che vron_accountable_for_murders)by Nigerians seeking to hold Chevron accountable for the murder of protesters in the Niger Delta.
Summary of the case (http://www.earthrights.org/legal/what-happened-parabe): 100 workers staged a sit-in on a barge in the Niger Delta to air their grievances. The workers requested that Chevron pay for using their oil rich land - in part, they wanted Chevron's help to build schools and hospitals, jobs for more members of their community, and compensation for the substantial pollution to their environment.
A Chevron liaison talked to the elders of the community, and told them company officials would return in a few days to discuss their grievances. Four days later, Chevron helicopters flew in, carrying Nigerian police who killed two protestors. Later, in the villages of Opia and Ikenyan, Nigerian soldiers were flown in on Chevron helicopters and attacked the villages killing several people.
Evidence was later uncovered that the Nigerian soldiers and police were paid by Chevron.
Today, the court turned away an appeal (http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/24/headlines/supreme_court_rejects_bid_by_nigerians_to_hold_che vron_accountable_for_murders)by Nigerians seeking to hold Chevron accountable for the murder of protesters in the Niger Delta.
Summary of the case (http://www.earthrights.org/legal/what-happened-parabe): 100 workers staged a sit-in on a barge in the Niger Delta to air their grievances. The workers requested that Chevron pay for using their oil rich land - in part, they wanted Chevron's help to build schools and hospitals, jobs for more members of their community, and compensation for the substantial pollution to their environment.
A Chevron liaison talked to the elders of the community, and told them company officials would return in a few days to discuss their grievances. Four days later, Chevron helicopters flew in, carrying Nigerian police who killed two protestors. Later, in the villages of Opia and Ikenyan, Nigerian soldiers were flown in on Chevron helicopters and attacked the villages killing several people.
Evidence was later uncovered that the Nigerian soldiers and police were paid by Chevron.