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“Lord, take my soul, but the struggle continues.”
As reported by The Independent · Last words at his execution, Port Harcourt, 10 November 1995
Context Hanged with eight other Ogoni activists after a military-appointed tribunal convicted them of murder in a trial widely condemned abroad; the hanging reportedly took several attempts.
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