LAGOS: The Nigerian minority rights leader Ken Saro-Wiwa only died at the fifth attempt to hang him, after putting up a struggle against his executioner, a Nigerian daily newspaper reported here Nov. 12.
The author and rights campaigner reportedly told his executioner while he was being hanged: “Why are you people treating me like What type of country is this God is better judge between me and you,” the paper said.
His last words were “God take my soul but the struggle continues,” the paper claimed.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 17, 1995
