Shell Oil is set to argue to in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) that this law cannot be used to hold it accountable for human rights abuses. Shell is facing allegations of aiding and abetting rape, torture and extrajudicial killings by working with the Nigerian military in the 1990s to oppress activists opposed to its oil operations. Corporate complicity in human rights abuses is nothing new…
Desmond Tutu: Will U.S. rule for rights of S. Africans?
Supreme Court hears case that challenges 223-year-old law that holds multinational corporations accountable for abuse.
If the Supreme Court sides with Shell, it would represent a terrible step backward for human rights.
By Desmond Tutu
3:36PM EST September 30. 2012 – In South Africa, we have struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings because of the color of their skin. Apartheid was a culture of legalized oppression that denied all of my people our fundamental human rights. We knew this was wrong. By the grace of God, the world supported our struggle for freedom, dignity and justice.
After apartheid, South Africans built a new country where the law was a tool for protecting human rights, not a means of oppression. But on Monday, the opening day of the new term, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider a case that could severely weaken a key legal mechanism used to secure justice for survivors of abuses such as those that fueled apartheid.
Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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A head-cut image of Alfred Donovan (now deceased) appears courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
