As a group we concluded that Royal Dutch Petroleum should not be held liable for the human rights abuses.  Royal Dutch Petroleum was supply the government with supplies that led to human rights abuses, this would be like saying a company is responsible for someone buying a product and using it in a harmful way.  They were supplying transportation and shelter, they were not supplying weapons or anything that led directly to the human rights abuse, they were selling their product, they are not responsible for how the consumer uses the supplies.  We believe that if the Ogoni people want to go after someone for the human rights abuse it shouldn’t be Royal Dutch Petroleum, they should go after the Nigerian government, I am not sure how they could go about thus but Royal Dutch Petroleum they should go after the Nigerian government, I am not sure how they could go about this but Royal Dutch Petroleum should not be the target for the Ogoni people.
We concluded as a group that the Ogoni people can not take a lawsuit to United States courts for what happened in another country.  This lawsuit should be heard by the courts in their country, they can take Royal Dutch Petroleum to court in their country because that his where the human rights abuse occurred. The United States isn’t responsible for what the company Royal Dutch Petroleum does, the United States government can put bans on some of Royal Dutch Petroleum’s products or add extra tax to them but the Ogoni people should not be able to receive compensation from them when it’s a lawsuit held in the United States.