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Escravos, Nigeria-AP -- Unarmed women holding 700 ChevronTexaco workers hostage in a Nigerian oil terminal have let 200 of the men go.
But they're threatening a traditional and powerful shaming gesture if the others try to leave -- they say they'll take their clothes off.
About 600 women are holding the terminal. They want the oil giant to hire their sons and use some of the wealth it's taken from the soil to develop their remote and run-down villages -- most of which lack even electricity.
The terminal accounts for the bulk of the company's Nigeria production, with an estimated half-(m) million barrels a day.
Oil site takeovers are common in Nigeria, the world's sixth-largest producer of oil, but this one is different because it's nonviolent.
But they're threatening a traditional and powerful shaming gesture if the others try to leave -- they say they'll take their clothes off.
About 600 women are holding the terminal. They want the oil giant to hire their sons and use some of the wealth it's taken from the soil to develop their remote and run-down villages -- most of which lack even electricity.
The terminal accounts for the bulk of the company's Nigeria production, with an estimated half-(m) million barrels a day.
Oil site takeovers are common in Nigeria, the world's sixth-largest producer of oil, but this one is different because it's nonviolent.
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