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i'll fight. her right. leg. more news today violence is once again flared up look. these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations to rule the day. 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 supplier of oil to the united states is the eight large six power of oil on the
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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 pollutes 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 militants pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. to leave. boudicca lives decide lies who come to depend on me. he says lesley.
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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. bob as a bad. guy i bought your new book. everything i'm going to tell you through. all who goes you in 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. 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 manage a good life is not easy. but i had to keep a low profile numerous foreign journalists and documentary filmmakers had already been expelled country. government forces from the greeks and gone on a mission to combat the militants and protect the oil from illegal. and many in the niger delta builders the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of oil. we passed by bonny island where multinational oil companies like shell. and agile
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tap 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 said. i think it's disturbing. the government we have been arguing the event not to do not to and. not to be about to. find i joke. or. do you think they're no longer here. but i beg go out of office. and the strong voice.
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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. made them to. doesn't it. the guard also hold my goosey it'll be bad for them if they run out of bullets what a world we live in is this an urban life or rural life. a new home and. are they dragging the other speedboat along so they're 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 feel.
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for. them ok mama 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 that is so it is not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to choose to. take it in sure come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with a pepper and chew it audio no tell identical love them take it quickly come on. my stomach hurts if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then was gone then he's used all of them does not speak to you
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but he did i did he. is the cause is a need to which he would and knows how to give us he's a long year. old girl in this given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mom is such a lover. no i thought i'd let it come to want to come out now card you can do it do it now doing to zeus the baby emerges then bilko cord was wrapped around his neck and is not present of a good. son yet one with. a lot of. life. is it enough do you need sand. done too long or too down i do it to first do it to down take take the sound.
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bring more bring more what's happened. once. the baby has come take him out take him out. by. enough way out through many pains during the delivery name of pain once the baby. you guys it was like you said it. was never. forget it was. 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
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drinking water or modern medical care methods aside the niger delta cause to which the militants have laid claim seemed just. but i want to learn more about why some young men choose to enter the ranks of the militants and about the leaders that 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 of mine to the limits of the greater the niger delta demand letter still raising the lani to the salvage on development company monday. state governments every day are next to enjoin the people. is known to be terrorizing the area that people had a lot of criminals to carry out such as to be killing or maiming he said people. of the. time i was.
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going to hold them. but it would. take a time i had been driven into hiding managerial strike taskforce 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 continental for a deal that would permit them to to return. this. is really about. this my life that. we had in mind i thought if you don't fight cause so we need developments schools i just walked out you know the government should do something about some. good for
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a. group of local journalists committed to visit to take his camp for a press conference. that will. be goes on so. for there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces a. minute i'm not going to nobody tell them to arrange themselves ladner gunmen does. and i just. don't. do that. i will get it. so.
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the traditional. surprising. story. and. train. pulls.
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i already. developments. on oh yeah. really everybody. and i got it out it was one. wants. to do it. maybe. he's on something you've done for charlie. i was fights back fights. fights and everybody should. just governments i don't want to have problem with me i'll fight. to win and when we win a fight and i'll tell you. how can you have peace if you don't know. when
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your government's. 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 does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. but you should see him do the right. and be off 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.
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so how long have you been here in the can. for you done. with. an album only stay. i don't know two governments all because. if you go tonight you've also been lost or thought i. am and if. you're my country congressman i lived for. nothing but i mean. i'm not going to. run from us. running from. we are facing a lot of problems in the not just because no one thought to drink for no
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good school. no developments when you visit as far as. well but. on somebody like. what. is the. human rights activists. many many names. on people to. do. is to an end to. this man if it is my. sweet. and if you.
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deny. him boys. when i first met jayma they resided mostly on the outskirts of the camp at home among the militants and with his true family he believes he found a father and a tech and where his own father fell short. nice. and so sweet so. i get. this is. this is. this it is this. or dishy. body. with these evil presidents.
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but make no end to destroy his game. for me to where. i left everything. broken official louis each and then also the dots and i think i think. if i want to lose that it is game it's. nice for me in the. navy it is looking. out for me most it's. called movietone dissolved. and my neighborhood away into. have my hair.
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ever clean yeah i think from from here. if he found one and it's kind. 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 children three boys three goes to a good kid the wise hardworking. in 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. his father. and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and
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when he came out that was when the market was operated as i came into my life i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like team a to come back so i would see him. you know. it's good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a major no wonder 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 go by god i don't know but i know there was no doubt about it i was. going to tell you that was how i got
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about how that was. how i doubt. that i didn't. really believe i'm going to get out of the gate how do those who are. yet to talk it out they did. that. very much to. my god i got i decided. to stick to fix them up when we were. on the things that. were going over the strike. not about what. was going on. what they mean the time to do it's thing before i was it's morning it's afternoon it's
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in the evening that this drink for you that is secret for you to smoke so use this event out of your. food is not one of the money is not. knowing this we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt if god was. not a doctor i'm not going to talk about it i want to know what i'm going to live i want to know what i don't know you by the way you know how much everything that we don't like that i want to. get like what you know what is the why we got married couple with you know not yes i go with your i'll go back and i'm feeling a little bit loud about what i'm going off about that it's awkward i said i wasn't . but you know well you know dogs are. really. interesting to the public i don't want to do what i did. and i did i'm happy and i doubt very much. that i do not.
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want to let it. go down to what it. was but you are not the one who got to do it that way they're going to find a rabbit. that was my dad's god damn i've done i do like that and i would. like you are doing. so. well. you know. what. we know who well the. problem of them all.
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about it. i mean i don't i don't want to be under the title that not welcome in times. i was appalled but if i was i'm not somebody that i must have a comp went to fight. or not try and get there and i know. i should and i think they're not and i'm not. a. very good. what fight oh no not on here are you doing i was the only was the. album the end you know and that was the was the end i know is it
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was is on the other clothes. was done was there she was here was. it. the. week he got home he said. yeah. i mean and then some boys doesn't listen. for life and tries to leave. finity come fall down with the golf. to do boosh. feet.
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from my own side of the muscle much of a lot of the time that these jobs left is the one thing that. is not among i would be in the prison yet it's a good. thing
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