{"id":1212,"date":"2011-12-27T02:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T02:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/27\/niger-delta-a-quiet-resistance-red-pepper\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:29:23","slug":"niger-delta-a-quiet-resistance-red-pepper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/27\/niger-delta-a-quiet-resistance-red-pepper\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger Delta: a quiet resistance | Red Pepper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a style=\"font-weight:bold;font-size:16px\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/883415502\/niger-delta-a-quiet-resistance-red-pepper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/883415502\/niger-delta-a-quiet-resistance-red-pepper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/1CXPXqSivv1Q8a0iizwJVTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><\/a><br \/>This militarisation \u2013 and resistance to it \u2013 has taken place in the context of an ongoing series of struggles over resources. As the dispossessed indigenous communities have continued to demand corporate responsibility, environmental, economic and social justice and proper compensation, their protests have been met with murders, torture, rape, the burning of homes and property and an ever increasing military presence. The outcome is an intensely militarised region \u2018secured\u2019 by an unrestrained and unaccountable tripartite force, comprising the Nigerian military, multinational oil companies and local militias.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/niger-delta-a-quiet-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Via redpepper.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesThis militarisation \u2013 and resistance to it \u2013 has taken place in the context of an ongoing series of struggles over resources. As the dispossessed indigenous communities have continued to demand corporate responsibility, environmental, economic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/12\/27\/niger-delta-a-quiet-resistance-red-pepper\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1657,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/05\/30\/apartheid-bahrain-exposed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1212,"position":0},"title":"Apartheid Bahrain Exposed","author":"aslam","date":"May 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesIn the aftermath of the killing of an unarmed fisherman by Bahraini security forces, Shia cleric calls for calm resolve and peaceful resistance.Show original","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1698,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/05\/04\/dear-obama-a-message-from-victims-of-the-lra\/","url_meta":{"origin":1212,"position":1},"title":"Dear Obama: A Message from Victims of the LRA | Webby Award Winner","author":"aslam","date":"May 4, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Via Scoop.it - Rights & LibertiesSince September 2008, at least 2,000 civilians have been killed and nearly 3,000 others have been abducted during attacks by the Lord\u2019s Resistance Army (LRA).Show original","rel":"","context":"In \"human rights\"","block_context":{"text":"human rights","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/tag\/human-rights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2993,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/2993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}