> between may 25 and 28, 1998, approximately 100 community protesters occupied the parabe platform, a chevron nigeria-owned offshore drilling rig and construction barge located in the niger delta. chevron nigeria was believed to have hired nigerian government security agents to forcibly remove the protesters and to have provided the agents with chevron-leased helicopters to transport their troops to and from the barge. the security forces allegedly shot four protesters, killing two, and captured and tortured a fifth.[4] chevron claimed the protesters were "kidnappers and extortionists who held 175 people hostage for three days while (chevron nigeria) vainly tried to negotiate with them."[5]   oto_v._chevron_corp.
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