Was Ken Saro-Wiwa's cause and struggle??, a Muslim brother

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First Listen to "Africa Have Your Say" perspective on BBC commemorating the execution of Ken Saro Wiwa----a man who fought the oppression, economic marginalization of his Ogoni tribe, and the ecological disaster of their land. Well listen to it and get insight and in-depth analysis of Ken Saro Wiwa's fight against injustice and oppression.

commemorative events have been held in many parts of the world in remembrance of Ken Saro Wiwa marking the 10th anniversary of his execution.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks ... ca_hys_fri

Questions asked are,

what cause would you be prepared to die for?

What is it to make you feel satisfied that is enough to sacrifice your life for?

His closing statement to the military appointed tribunal just before he was about to be executed.


"My lord,

We all stand before history. I am a man of peace, of ideas. Appalled by the denigrating poverty of my people who live on a richly endowed land, distressed by their political marginalization and economic strangulation, angered by the devastation of their land, their ultimate heritage, anxious to preserve their right to life and to a decent living, and determined to usher to this country as a whole a fair and just democratic system which protects everyone and every ethnic group and gives us all a valid claim to human civilization, I have devoted my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be blackmailed or intimidated. I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter on our journey. Nor imprisonment nor death can stop our ultimate victory...................History is on their side. God is on their side. For the Holy Quran says in Sura 42, verse 41:"All those that fight when oppressed incur no guilt, but Allah shall punish the oppressor." Come the day."

http://www.mngt.waikato.ac.nz/depts/sml ... rowiwa.htm