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for the past two years the battle has raged at the mouth 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. is the fifth largest supplier of oil to the united states just a large sex 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 that ignited in which militants pipelines sabotage closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. who took that ice blue decide lies who come to depend on me. 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 bad. as. you thought i bought your new book. ever you feel you i'm going to tell you through.

all who goes you in just how i got it all why do. 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 to ludlum yes. my dad yes or yeah but i doubt don't i don yes are you forty think you see only what you see but add.

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 had already

been expelled country. government forces patrolling the streets and going on a mission to cut 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 companies like shell. magic 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 deserved it never no problem. to go but we have been ugly to not even. get out a fat joke at. one time. or . do you think they're no longer here. 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 carry some people in this big bed and they bend to. the far to hold my kisses 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 would follow

a new home 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 mom goes into labor for. so. 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. that isat is not a man and you're going to want to give you this route to to. take it in sure come on up to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with the pepper and

chew it audio no doubt identical love them take it quickly come on. my still camera . if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once the demo is gone then just use. one of them does not speak to your buddy did i didn't you. this is the cause is a need to wish you would and knows how to give us all of the yeah yeah. some of it was a little girl in this given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as momma settle over. there was. no i'd let it come the wanted to come out now card you can do it do it now do it to zeus the baby emerging him bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and

bridge of a good. woman. that i love them. what . is that enough do you need sand. done too long a time down i do it to first do it down to are good to down take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened was the reason you think you want. the baby has come take him out take him out. by. enough way out then you feel my pains during the delivery name a pain once the baby.

you guys are. going. to put that. together. 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 the strongest in the region. known to be terrorizing the area that the people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing maiming and he said people. of the.

five. hundred. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's truck 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 return. to. this my wife. and i live we are united i thought if we don't fight cause so we need development. schools i just. know.

of a group of local journalists permitted to visit to take this camp for a press conference. that will. go through so. there are some boys with guns telling to cover their faces. very minute in muslim nobody tell them to arrange themselves ladner gunmen does. not. do that.

she could lumber a tour to mccurry was able to build the most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tombs mission to teach me creation why it should care about humans and we're going this is why you should care only. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

about international and world in the very heart of moscow. and. valid developments. of what is. just like a bridge on oh yeah that really everybody does then what it is using villepin and i but john lagos and i got it out of those one. so on it's down to one that even on a jet. event she's there that's what may be a breeze and it's become something you've been done for charm and properties i was fights back i was fights all fights. everybody. just said governments i do want to have problem with me. when we

fight and i'll tell you. how can you have peace if you don't. just. governments. just. when you see sincerity in. this instead. you know and i know. the president. like public doesn't like like everybody you know what is it. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. you should soon do to live. off the you know some records from. where you from. my life did not revise that.

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a lot of problems in the net. because no what ought to drink. no good school. no development we live in is as far as. well read. on somebody like don't act like it. is a human rights activist. is if we don't fight. us for how many many names it was to kill him i think in. some people know him to us so much so that we know him to know that the. enemies used to call him an enemy to. this man if it is my own he says you go to sweet girl he says don't. and be if you don't say don't. have business. is the man

that they kill of do not get after. them and dogs they kill off employees. when i first met jayma he resided 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 attack where his own father fell short not nearly as comfortable brings out nice and so sweet so. i get it is so nice so cool. this is logical and i laughed. bush for bush. this is lot in for all to see it is what i call all day she. died two days nobody. would these brilliant.

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i was in the hospital and he came out that's when the mark i 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 the farm. and i'm a gentle warner 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 any other place i don't know. you know what i did was i don't know but i know there was no alcohol and i was.

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it's drink for you dad is secret for you to smoke so use is a better level of. food is not one. month is not one molex we don't. have all the time oh god no i doubt it's god like. like i'm not going to talk about this i want to know what i'm going to live i want to do what i don't know you by the way you know how much if you cannot go back then i was. going to look at what the one thing that was i was not marriageable with you know not yes i go with your job and i'm feeling a little bit louder than i do you don't worry about that it's awkward i thought i was the biggest. well you know. if you listen to the bible. i don't want to do what i know that's. what i do than i did i'm happy and i go out. when i want to know.

that i've. got to do what it. was. you are not the new guy do it that way they're going to find a rabbit. that was my dad's car go down after dark i do like that and i am going to find my god i'm going. to go found what. we're going to. form and move almost.

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that that i know that. i believe that it is under. load. i. was. not here. because. he's. yeah. i mean i made some blazed as a lesson. from the life and tries to leave fiona to come for. the golf. feast. for my.

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the hall and gas and everything in the it's got all that and. everything it needs it can survive by itself to roast the united states which is to say the rest i cannot survive without food for my neighborhood. striving for bread and an independent future. republican texas analyse.

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