10. Environmental Student Activists Gunned Down On Chevron Oil Facility in Nigeria – Top 25 of 1999

10. Environmental Student Activists Gunned Down On Chevron Oil Facility in Nigeria – Top 25 of 1999:

On May 28, 1998, Nigerian soldiers were helicoptered by Chevron employees to the Chevron owned oil facility off the coast of Nigeria in order to attack student demonstrators who had occupied a barge anchored to the facility. After multiple attacks, two students lay dead, and several others were wounded. The students had been peacefully protesting at the site since May 25. One hundred and twenty-one youths from 42 different communities had gathered to oppose the environmental destruction brought on by Chevron’s oil extraction practices.