Shell oil paid Nigerian military to put down protests, court documents show | World news | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/03/shell-oil-paid-nigerian-military
Court documents now reveal that in the 1990s Shell routinely worked with Nigeria’s military and mobile police to suppress resistance to its oil activities, often from activists in Ogoniland, in the delta region.
Confidential memos, faxes, witness statements and other documents, released in 2009, show the company regularly paid the military to stop the peaceful protest movement against the pollution, even helping to plan raids on villages suspected of opposing the company.