The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the Chevron oil corporation paid Nigerian soldiers guarding Chevron oil rigs more than $100 a day even after the soldiers allegedly attacked two Nigerian villages, killing four people and setting fire to homes. This fact surfaced this year as part of a lawsuit against Chevron for the deadly attacks in 1999. An invoice to pay 23 soldiers who say they responded to an alleged assault by men from Opia against a Chevron oil rig. Villagers say they had gone to the rig to meet with Chevron representatives and returned home to see soldiers open fire from a hovering helicopter. To the villagers’ lawyers, the invoice shows Chevron knew of the attacks and should be held accountable for them. This attack came a few months after Democracy Now! broke the story of a similar attack on villagers in the Niger Delta in 1998. Chevron admitted to us that it had provided helicopters for the an attack and that the company’s head of security rode in the helicopters with feared troops from the Nigerian mobile police as they attacked unarmed villagers. The company is also being sued for that attack.