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Spartacus R.
editor of Global Africa Pocket News and author of "Violation" and "The Maat Mystery" takes another look at the world.

Ken Saro-Wiwa and 8 other Africans were murdered by the military gangsters of Nigeria on the 10th November 1995. They were ostensibly, tried, convicted and executed for the murder of 4 agents carrying titles. The background to the whole affair (see Global Africa Pocket News #6) suggests that if Saro-Wiwa was involved in the deaths of these "organized bandits", which is very unlikely, it could not have been murder but self-defence. He was simply defending himself and his nation, the Ogoni people, against cowboys toting guns and riding tanks. Killing them would most definitely have been against his self-proclaimed pacifism but it could not in any way be murder.

News of Ken Saro-Wiwa and his comrades' deaths was not a surprise to me but it was a major shock. They were prisoners of a war between the Ogoni and those representing Shell Oil and other Global European interests and should have been treated as P.O.W.s. But they did not claim P.O.W. status.

We have to be clear that we are soldiers when we call ourselves "freedom fighters" and "human rights activists", of which Brother Saro-Wiwa was one of the most courageous and valiant. Soldiers get killed in battle or murdered as prisoners of war. I am sure that he more than any, knew he was risking his life when he decided to take a stand against those thieves who had stolen over $40 billion of his peoples oil and poisoned them. Evidently Global Europe (White people) have need for the land and its resources but the people are seen as an expendable inconvenience. Once obstacles like Saro-Wiwa are permanently removed Shell Oil or their successors will be back to "clean up".

Africans are being arrested and executed in Nigeria almost daily. The system of government which operates for the benefit of Global Europe and is supported by their arms and terror expertise, demands it. Some Global European leaders (and their African lackeys) now cry crocodile tears but they are not sad that yet more African lives are destroyed, sacrificed on the altar of profit and exploitation. They are angry that their "boys" in Nigeria did not listen when they said "let Saro-Wiwa go". They may feel insulted that a bunch of African gangsters whose strings they pull said defiantly: "up yours" and carried on with the business of murder. Or were the boys merely following orders? Time will tell.

This apparent act of defiance raises a fundamental question, issue of self-determination. Global Europe has no right to meddle in the affairs of Global Africa (Black people) and this case is no exception. Some people may feel that Global Africa cannot resolve our problems without the help of outsiders but most of our problems exist because of our relationship with them. So begging Major or Clinton, who are themselves busy killing Africans, to intervene and stop the hangings, merely confirms their position as controllers and suggests a lack of power on our parts.

It is time for us to deal with criminals like Abacha ourselves, to seize control of our lives instead of begging those who create our problems to solve them for us. Let us not shed tears for our fallen soldiers, but pick up their weapons and go forward to victory and make sure that their blood was not spilled in vain because we have the power. We are the power.