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abusing his power if you see a prison full of kids near you you better make sure that they're actually baby guilty of something but that's just my opinion. so.
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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. areas the fifth largest
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supplier of oil to the united states is the eight large six power of oil on the planet but in the niger delta 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 there schools 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 reap enormous profits the inhabitants of the niger delta live in poverty. under these circumstances it was no surprise to me that a conflict has ignited which militant pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. who took the lives who decide lies who come to depend on me. mr leslie.
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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. but as bad. guy about your new book. everything i'm going to tell you through. all who goes to we do so i got it all why do.
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you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or like your fault you know but i don't yes or you want my butt out. yes. yes or yes but i don't and i doubt yes a few forty think you see only what you see don't add. but.
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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 and manage a good life is not easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers have already been expelled country. government forces patrolling the streets and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. but many in the niger delta builders the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of. the past by bonny island or multi-national oil companies like shell. and agile tap
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into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in a jock or a tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. i think he's deserved it. the government we have been a do in the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joke. do you think they're no longer here. but i
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beg go out of office. and the strong voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing. it looks like they carry some people in this big bed and they bend to. it but 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 a child. even in the midst of a conflict so ordinary life takes its course and its twenty three year old named
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mom goes into labor fee. for. them ok mommy has come. five minutes when you're done eating please check her 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 that is it is not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure you come on. to it stand up. that way this thing is no better take it with a pepper and chew it adios don't know what i don't like allow them to take it quickly come on. my stomach hurts if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then world is gone then
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this is. all of them does not speak to you but they did i didn't you. is the cause is a need to wish it would and knows how to give advice i love you. oh good lord just given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as momma said to the liver. was. god let it live wanted to come out now god you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerge with him bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not free of a good. son. one with. a lot of. what. is that enough do you need sand. done too long a time down i do it to first do it to down take take the sun.
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bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out. enough way out then a few pains during the delivery name a pain once the baby's out. you guys are like you've got a. good guy. 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
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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 have laid claim seem just. but i want 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. israel to a record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel applied to the limits of the right to greater than niger delta letter to recently lonnie's of the salvage on development company monday. every day are enjoying the people. known to be terrorizing the area that the people had allowed to carry out such as being killing and maiming and he said people. of the.
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time i was. going to tell them. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding managerial strike task force he retaliated with an attack on the presidential hotel nevertheless he and his boys are fated to hide out as fugitives and a handful of camps they maintain in the creeks awaiting a resolution to the continent or a deal that would permit them to to return. about . this my wife that. we have in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just all. know the government should do something about some.
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group of local journalists committed to visit the techies camp for a press conference. that will. goes on so. that there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces a. minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves. and i just. don't. do that. i will fit.
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dreams the race is on and done as you update on. the contrary. more news today. these are the images from. canada. giant corporations are today. yeah. there.
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was one. so. maybe the. company. i was fired i was fights. everybody. just did governments i do wonder how problem with me. if i can tell you. how can you help peace if you don't. just. governments and. just. when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know and i know. the president no i don't like my life up to doesn't like like everybody you know what is involved. is not what's got his you ok ok.
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for the last. sixty. you should see him do the lives. of every off the you know there are some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going to meet him i didn't go off i want to. say how long you've been here and we can. tell you don. to sit with them and of only stay. i don't know two governments because. if you go tonight you've also been lost so i thought i. am and if. you're my country congressman
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i will leave first. nothing but i mean. i'm not going. to mess. up no. one from. we are facing a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink for no good school if. we lived is as far as. well good. on somebody like. what. is the. human rights activists.
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many many millions. of people to. do. is to call him and to. this man if it is my. suite. and if you. do not. take employees. when i first met chambers 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 a tech and for his own father fell short. of. rice.
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and so sweets. i get. this is. this is. this it is this. or dishy. body. with these evil presidents. but making it into destroy and i just game is my father. ask for me to wear. a vest every team. logo on official loomis each and then also the dots and i might think of i think i'll cry.
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if i want to know is that it is game it's. nice for me. i had never eaten flying. from it must it's. called movietone dissolved. and part of the way into that i. had my hair. and i mean yeah i think from from here. here's someone and it's. it's just that i didn't gave it to him but he's my child i hold there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. says i have six
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children three boys three goes. is a good kid hard working. and since do. i want to see him. him i 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 he came out that was when the market was operated. with 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 would see him. and i work on my for. you know. it's good if you go there and that his mother was working on
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the farm. and i'm age 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 he went any other place i don't know. i'm going to go by god i don't know that we know that was about to highlight. some of the things. that really happened i was about how i don't know how that was. my life. that i didn't. really believe i'm going to be going to be good how do
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you argue that. yet you talk it out he did. very much i love you but i got i just. checked the fix on him up when we were. on the. roof over the gulf trying. to find out what. was. the name in the time to do its thing before i was it's morning afternoon evening that he's going for you daddy sigrid for you to smoke so you see this event out of your . food is not one of the money is not love. this we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god and i grew up under the law and i did i'm like i'm not going to talk about it as well you know what i got
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a little bit was i don't know you by the way you know how much everything that we don't like then i want to act like that even i don't want to get a lot of what that was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know you're right now go back and i'm feeling a little out of the world of what i'm going off about that it's awkward i thought i was. well you know good stuff. coming out of the what i'm going to. go by dan i did not know that they are now out there not. that i do not. want to. go down you don't want it. but you are not the one you guys are going to get right there just fine rob it. was my god damn i forgot i do not deny. the fact that i. was doing. so.
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well for. what. we knew who was good. for almost. every day i don't i don't want to be under title. welcoming times. i don't know the fall but if i was i'm not somebody. i must have a comp went to fight. or not the next time i know. i should and i think there's
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a lot and i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. well white or no not. i. i. laugh i believe that there's you know that there are that out there that there is there is no way that it is on the other you know. i. was. i. could.
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feel. the gulf. feel. which i don't like that. i mean if this is the one. i would be in the prison. she could laboratory. building.
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fortunately dorna found anything tunes mission to teach me why you should care about. this is why you should care only on the dog call.
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