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for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth of the niger river pitting local militants against government forces and multinational oil companies. when i first arrived here i had just a basic understanding of the nature of the conflict. the jury is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states is the aid large six border of oil on the planet but in the niger delta the region that produces hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas each year the average person lives on less than one dollar per day there are no this school no good roads no good hospitals every year over three hundred oil spills contaminate the region and constant flaring of precious natural gas pollution the ecosystem. companies and corrupt politicians
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reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances there was no surprise to me that a conflict that ignited which militants pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. so leave. who took that ice blue decide lies who troubled economy. mr leslie. the truth is i always tend to root for the underdog and i felt an attraction to these men who were taking on the world's largest oil corporations and the corrupt government of africa's most populous nation so i took my camera to nigeria to try to meet them. bob as a bad. guy i bought you
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a new book. and usually i do tell you through. all who go through and just how i got it all why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or like you. yes or you want my but i feel blah blah yes. yes or yes but i don't and i doubt yes you forty think you see
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only what you see don't add. but. i decided to follow the camp commander's advice traveling with some fishermen i set out to see for myself what life is like in the niger delta and hopes of understanding the conditions out of which the militancy was born. my brother such a life is sweet it's just that there is no money. to live manage a good life is not easy. but i had to keep
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a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers have already been expelled country. government forces and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. and many in the niger delta field as the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of its oil. we passed by bonnie island where multinational oil companies like shell. and agile tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil and her feet. and i find myself in the joc of a tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp.
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i said. i think he's deserved it. the government we have been arguing the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. or. do you think they're no longer here. but i beg go out of office. in the strong voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. it looks like they've carried some people in their speed bed and made them to.
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doesn't it. the guard also hold my guess is it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets what a world we live in is this an urban life or rural life would allow a new born and. are they dragging the other speedboat along there using their guns to signal each other. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. so. i'm ok mom a has come. i mean and that's when you're done eating please check your stomach moment. when she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. how about this it is not
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a minute you're going to want to give you this route to choose to. take it in sure you come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with a pepper and chew it audio note identical love them take it quickly come on. my stomach and. if you're cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once the demo is gone demis used all of them does not speak to you buddy did i didn't you. this is the cause is a need to wish you would and knows how to give advice i love the. old girl discussion space. it's all a mate no complications arise as momma said to deliver.
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god let it live wanted to come out now card you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerge with him bill court is wrapped around his neck and he is not prince of a good. son got. a lot of. life . is it enough do you need sun. done too long a time down i do it to first do it to down take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out. by. enough way out then i feel my pains during the delivery name
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a pain once the baby's out. love you guys that was like you. know that. during my time in h.r. career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the region's immense natural wealth and inhabitants access to basic necessities like clean drinking water or modern medical care. methods aside the niger delta cause to which the militants had laid claim seemed just. but i wanted to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders to draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious to take a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force as one of the strongest in the region.
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israel to record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel of mine to the movement for the greater the niger delta. all until recently learned that the salvage on development company monday. everyday are next enjoying the people. known to be terrorizing the area that the people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing and maiming and he said people. i would. want to tell them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's trying task force he retaliated with an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to hide
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out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the conflict or a deal that would permit them to return. come up with. this my life and go on with life we have in mind i thought if you don't fight cause so we need developments schools i just go on lockdown you know to go measure dysfunctional bottom or. whatever. the group of local journalists permitted to visit to take a scam for a press conference.
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a little while i go smoke. goes on goes a small town. but there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves ladner gunmen does just as simple. as you can we do. today. i will get it.
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john. and i got it out of those one. soul wants. to do the. event of his to do. what may be a very nice couple done for a truck. i was fights back i was fights all fights and everybody. is dead governments i do wonder how for me i'll fight. so when will we know if i can say i will not tell you. how can you have peace if you don't know. how i just when you forgot governments and. i just. when you see sincerity you know it is. this instead. you know and i know. the president no not like like like doesn't like like
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everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. but you should see him do to live. up to the you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that. well. i will go you. know i'm going to i mean i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can. i use on. this suit. and eloise day. i don't know two governments all because. you got my divorce will be lost or thought i.
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am and if. you're for my country congressman i lived for. nothing but i think. i'm going to. run from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink for no good school few. minutes when you visit far. well good. on somebody like. what. is the. human rights activists.
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how many men in the hands. of the. enemies is the enemy to. this man if it is my. own. if you. do not get at the. voice. when i first met chaman it was i did mostly on the outskirts of the camp or at home among the militants and with his true family he believes he found a father and
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a tech and where his own father fell short. of. rice. and so sweets. i get. this is logical. this is. it this is a dishy. body. with these evil presidents. what make me destroy his game is my father. asked for me to where. i left everything. bloke on
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official louis each and then also he doubts i might think of i think i'll cry. if i want to know is that it is game it's. on me. never it is lying. from the most it's. called movietone dissolved. and part of a word or way into. having my hair. about me yeah i think from from here. he. found one hundred times. it's just that i didn't gave birth to him but he is my
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child i hold it was a good one i don't do to him what i trained him. says i have six children three boys three goes. is a good kid the wise hardworking god oh. my sin since do. i want to see him. in mother wasn't even here until he died it is his primary school and he went to court to look for his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and when he came out that was when the market was operated i can move on to what i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like tina to come back so i will see him. and i work on my for. you know. if you are good if you go there
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and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a jew and i want to i thought he was dead. i've gone to port harcourt to look for him i didn't see him i said maybe he's dead. if you went to any other place i don't know. you know i'm going to talk about how i was i don't know but i think i was about to highlight. some of. that was how that how do i go about how that was. valid. id. going going going going to get out of
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those who aren't. yet to talk it out a good. that is. good about it but i need my i got she said. she took the fifth on a mobile. phone on the grounds that. women voters don't like. not act like i was i was wondering. what they mean the time to you it's going to far as it's morning it's afternoon evening that he's going for you that is secret for you to smoke so these this event left you. food is not one. month is not one of the mole mislead the. have all the time oh god no i doubt if god was. like i'm not going to you
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might as well know what i've got somebody who wants to let you know i don't know you by the way you know my dad he did not we don't like that and i was. like what that was the why we got married couple with you know not yet somehow you know with your go bang i'm feeling a little bit loud i was going off about that it's awkward i thought i was good because i love you. oh to listen to the bible. i just want to know what i know there's. an idea that i'm happy and i doubt very much. that i do know. that i've. got to do what it. was. but you cannot do i need to do it that way that i got started i have it. was my god's goddamn i've done enough and i am going to. get out there i can't. do that i.
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know. what. we're going to. move almost. out of. reach i don't i want to hundred by myself not welcome in times. either as a fall but if i don't i must fight i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. for not
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trying to get there and i know. i should and i think there's a lot i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. what might not. i owe it was the. was out i was. that was that i knew that i. was on the yellow dirty clothes there. was i. was. i. was here was. that.
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he got when he said. he. doesn't live. from the light and tries to leave if i don't and he come. with a golf. to do boosh. for my own science which i don't like that. i mean that these are absolute is the one thing that. is not i would be in the prison yard.
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