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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. 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 this school no good roads no good
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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. to leave. 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. yet.
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bob as bad. as. you thought i bought your new book. and usually i'm going to tell you through. all who goes to induce how i got it all why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or like your fault. yes or you what brought up the blah blah yes it comes up i do my data
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yes or yeah but i don't and yes a few forty think you see only what you see doesn't 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
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a life is sweet it's just that there is no money. manager 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. 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 oil. we passed by bonnie island where multinational oil companies like shell. and magic tap into the thirty six billion barrels of oil beneath our feet. and i find myself in each of the tiny fishing village that is frequently visited by the. militants from a nearby camp. as
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. i said. i think it's deserved it. the government we have been idle in the event not to god not to him. not to know about. and i joked. do you think they're no longer here. i beg go out of office. the strong voice. why can't they find somewhere else to stay. far away. what are they doing.
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it looks like they've carried some people in this big bed. made them to. doesn't it . the cargo hold michael see 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. and you. 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 it's twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. feel. welcome ok mama has come. i'm in a mess when you're done eating please check her stomach moment. when
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she is slow to deliver her father feeds her roots and black pepper a traditional remedy to help speed the birth. how about if. i want to give you this route to to. take it in sure you come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take it with the pepper and chew it don't know what i don't like allow them to take it quickly come on. my stomach. if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once and then world is gone then this is. all of them does not speak to you but they did i didn't you. is the cause in its you we would and knows how to give us peace i love you. oh good lord just given space. it's all a mate no complications arise as mama's such
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a lover. oh i thought i'd let it live wanted to come out now oh god you can do it do it now doing to zeus the baby emerge with him bilko chord is wrapped around his neck and he is not original with a. son. one with. a lot of. life. is that enough do you need sand. done too long a time down i do it to do it don't want to. take take the sun. bring more bring more what's happened. the reason i. want. the baby has come take him out take him out.
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enough way out i see many planes during the delivery name a pain once the baby. you guys are like you've got a. lot of guys. during my time in h.r. career i've gotten a taste of the tenuous life in the creeks the vast disparity between the regions of men's 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 that draw them into the struggle so i made my way to the camp of the notorious to take
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a tom cruise niger delta patriotic force as one of the strongest in the region. ice israel to record high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel and fearsome line to the limits of the greater the niger delta. until recently law needs to be salvaged on development company modern day. state governments every day are next to enjoin the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing or maiming us and it said people. of the. time i was. going to. 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
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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. this my wife. we have in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just all. know go measure to something about. a group of local journalists committed to visit to take this camp for a press conference.
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about international and world in the very heart of moscow. and. valid developments. what is cool or not everett's in good roads just like a bridge on oh yeah that really everybody does their money they're using to live in and then i would john lagos and i got it out it was one that wasn't on its soul wanted them to use on one that even on a jet it. is going to choose to do that's what may be a very sad it's kind humble you've been done for charm and properties i was fights back i was fights. everybody should go we are gods is dead governments
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i do wonder how program with me i'll fight. so when when we got back when if i didn't i would not tell you it's going to. how can you have peace if you don't dispose of i went out how would i just when you forgot governments and. all that is common but when you see sincerity you know what if it was just this instead of me what forms that you know and i know. the president no complex like life doesn't like like everybody you know what does evolve. is not what's got his you ok ok. for the last. sixty. you should see him do to live. and we ought to do you know there are
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some records from. where you from. my life did not reverse that. well. i will go you. know what i'm going to do you not didn't go off i want to. say how long you've been here and you can. run off on. what you've done. with them and eloise day. i don't know two governments called to say. if you go tonight you've also been lost so i thought i. am and if the friends you know if my country congressman i believe just first. one thing i think. i'm going to. come from.
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no. one from. we office and a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink. no good school. no developments when you visit as far as. well but. on somebody like. what. is a human rights activists. is if. that. was for how many many millions. of people to a summer of the two now that the. enemies used to call him and to. this man if
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it is my. sweet. and we if you. is amanda take care of do not get at them. they fell off the invoice. when i first met chambers 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 a techie where his own father fell short. out nice. and so sweet so. i get some of. this is logical. flaw. this is lord and fall it is this. or dishy. the.
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body. would be evil brezinski. disorder cloyd's. but making it into destroy it is game. after i'd not taken a fall for me to where. i left everything in the. most open official loomis each and all study dots and i might think of i think. if i want to lose that it is game it's. on me. never it is looking after me most it's. called movietone dissolved.
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and my name right away into that i. have my hair. and chain and yeah i think from from here. there's someone and it's. it's just that i didn't gave birth to him but he's my child there was a good one i don't today and i trained him. says i have six children three boys three goes. is a good kid hard working. and since do. i want to see him.
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in my was living 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 when he came out that was when the market was operated as. i really want to see. to my operation was the last time i saw him so i would like to come back so i will see him. i work on my for. you no. good if you go there and that his mother was working on the farm. and i'm a general 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
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was i don't know that we know there was no alcohol and i was. lucky because that was how i got about how that was. valid. got out. going going going going to be how do those who are. yet to try it out they did. it. very much. but i got i decided. to check the facts on the mobile world. on the. roof
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over the five. years i. was under. the name in the time to do its thing before i was it's morning and it's half now it's in the evening that this drink for you dad is sigrid for you to smoke so use this event out of your. food is not one of the money is not. mona's to the. devil i know because i doubt if god was. like i'm not going to look but i just want to know when i got a little bit want to do what i don't know you by the way not that he's not we don't like that and i was. like a lot of what he was i was not marriageable with you know not yes i go with your job and i feel lonely and it was you don't worry about that it's awkward i thought that was the good news. well you know good stuff. ok
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let's go to the bible but i don't know what i know there's. nobody out there and i did not know that and i doubt very much. that i would you know we all. thought it was going to go down you know what it. was like you cannot do what you gotta do with that right there that's fine i have it. was my god damn i've done enough and i have always felt like we don't know about the life that you. know found. very. well the. problem of them all.
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about it. i mean i don't i don't want to be on the time i'm not welcome in times. either of the fall but if i was on a summer book. i must have a comp went to fight. or not the next time i go i am i should and i think there's a lot and i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. what i'd. oh no not our long here are our doing i was over the
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load was the word was out. i was up you know and that was the was and then i know it. was is on the other clothes. wasn't. done there was. loads of the here was. the. week he got up and he said to include his opponent and he. was funny yeah. i mean and then some place does a. random. for life and tries to leave. fit on. the golf. to do boosh flooding
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for my own science domicile much of a lot of. time that these absolute is the one that. is loved by i would be in the prison yet it's good. they all see themselves as dying swans in their dreams. but only one of the cells will ever make it to the top. they're ready to give their lives for the chance to die on stage if only once. not even broken wing. for generations at the risk if it but they
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