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A UN fact-finding mission visited Nigeria at the end of March (at the request of the government) to evaluate progress toward democracy and to examine judicial procedures in the wake of the executions of nine members of the minority Ogoni ethnic group. A member of the mission was reported as saying that the "problems of human rights are terrible and the political problems are terrifying."
A UN fact-finding mission visited Nigeria at the end of March (at the request of the government) to evaluate progress toward democracy and to examine judicial procedures in the wake of the executions of nine members of the minority Ogoni ethnic group. A member of the mission was reported as saying that the "problems of human rights are terrible and the political problems are terrifying."
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