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games flared up. these are images girls world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations 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 just a large sex partner of oil on the planet but in 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 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. well 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
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that a conflict that ignited pipelines sabotaged closed haitians and kidnapped foreign oil workers. to leave. ticket ice blue decide life is food 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 a new book. and usually i'm going to tell you through.
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all who goes you in just how i got it all why do. you call we don't let you fall stuff yes or. yes or you way. 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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not the way i look. i decided for all the camp commander's advice traveling with some fishermen i set out to see for myself it was like in the niger delta and hopes of understanding the conditions out of which the militants was born . my brother such a life is sweet just of there is no money i want 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 from the greeks and gun my mission to
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combat the military and protect the oil from illegal. many in the night because the oil companies and the federal government were robbing the region of its oil. we passed by bonny island for multinational oil companies like shell mobil and agile 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. everybody. was. sent. down i think. deserved it never no problem. the government we have been
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a doing the event not to god not to him. not to you about. and i joke. 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. it looks like they carry some people in this big bed and they bend to it. but doesn't it. is the cargo hold michael see it will be bad for them if they run out of bullets. the world we live in is this an urban life for rural life. a new born and. are they dragging the other speedboat along they're using their guns
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to signal a child. even in the midst of the conflict so ordinary life takes its course and the twenty three year old named mom goes into labor for. for. them ok mama 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 it not a minute you're going to want to give you this route to choose to. take it ensure you come on. to it stand up. for you this thing is no better take with the
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pepper and chew it audio to know it identical love it for take it quickly come on. my stomach. if you were cheering it you latest initiative already done. all this once the demo is gone then just use. on does not speak your body did i did he. is the cause is a need to wish he would and knows how to give us his i love the yes. oh good lord this given space. that's all they need no complications arise as momma said to deliver. what i thought i'd let it live wanted to come out now god you can do it do it now do it to zeus baby emerge with him bilko cord is wrapped around his neck and he is not prince of a good son not. woman. love that.
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is that enough do you need sun. done too long a time down i do it to first do it to. 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 of many feel my pains during the delivery naima pain once the baby's out.
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good job of you guys that was like a good i'll. 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 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. israel to a very high of one hundred thirty three dollars per barrel and that might add to the movement of the of the greater the niger delta demand on until recently launched the salvage on development company late monday. every day are
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next to join the people. known to be terrorizing the area that people had allowed to carry out such as to be killing or maiming innocent people. was. that it would. take a time had been driven into hiding by nigeria's joint task force he retaliated with an attack on a 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 return. about . this my wife.
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we had in mind i thought if you don't fight the house so we need development schools i just walk down you know the goldmans you dysfunctional bottom are a good. group of local journalists committed to visit detectives camp for a press conference. that will. be goes on salt. but there are some boys with guns telling to cover faces. very minute in melbourne
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remember about international world in the very heart of moscow. and the united. valid developments. of what is cool or not everett's in good roads just like a bridge on oh yeah that really everybody does their money to use in developing and then i would john davis and i got it out of those one is the one you know it's sold one it's done to use on one it's even on and i've had it done if used to do that's what may be a very sad it's kind something you've been done for charm and pop artist i was fights about fights all fights. everybody. is dead governments i do wonder how problem with me. if i
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can tell you. how can you have peace if you don't. just. governments. but 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. 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.
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well. i will go you. know what i'm going to have and i didn't go off i want to. so how long have you been here in the can. i used. to sit with them and eloise day. i don't know two governments 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 miss. running from. we are facing
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a lot of problems in the night. because no one thought to drink for no good school few. minutes when you visit our far. thread but. on somebody like. what. is the human eye. activities. how many many names. of the two. enemies is the enemy to. this man if it is my. and if you.
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do not get at the. voice. when i first met jayma it resided mostly on the outskirts of the camp or at home among the militants and with his true family able to see found a father and attack and where his own father fell short. of. rice and so sweets. i get. this is. this is. this it is this. or dishy. with. body. with these evil presidents.
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but making the destroy and i just game is my father. after i'd not taken a fall for me to where. i left everything. open official louis each and then also the dots and i might think of i think. if i want to lose that it is game it's. nice for me in the. navy to slam a farm in west it's. called movietone dissolved.
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my neighborhood away into the night. and hair. and then yeah i think from from here. p. m. one hundred nineteen his mother who is just that i didn't gave birth 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. is a good kid the wise hardworking godall. incentives do. i want to see him in my was having a till he died it is his primary school and he went to court to look at his father . and later he left when i saw him last one i was in the hospital and that was when
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the market was operated. 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. i made you know 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 in your place i don't know. you know i'm going to was that we know there was no alcohol and i was.
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smoking. that was about how i don't know that i was. about mal. that i didn't. really believe i'm going to get out of them could how do you argue that. yet you talk it out he did. a. good about it but he's my god i got on your side. chick that i'm open. for. women over stuff like. you know how well. thank you god i wonder.
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what they mean the time to you it's strange if i was it's morning afternoon evening that he's going for you dad is secret for you to smoke so he's this event that if you. food is not one of the money is not. mislead the. table behind the devil i doubt if god was and you're not a doctor i'm not going to you might as well know what i'm going to live i want to know what i know you by the way not that you did not would not like that and i was . like what you know was i was not marriageable with you know not yet somehow you know with your god well go back and i'm feeling and it was i'm going off about that it's awkward i thought i was a good. well you know good stuff. i don't know what i don't know there's. an idea that i'm not going out there.
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when i do not. feel. that i've. got to do what it ought to be avoided. but you are not going to do it that way there that's why this would have been. what my guides five of them have done i do not have and i have always. felt that i can't. do that i. know. what. i mean. we're not going to. call them all.
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out and. i mean i don't i think i'm going to document not welcoming times. i don't know the fall but if i don't i will fight i'm not somebody that i must have a comp went to fight. or not the next time i know i am i should and i think there's a lot and i'm not. a. very good. mother. who knows. what i. oh no no no no. i was over the load was the. guy out there i was you know man that was the one that i knew that i know.
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was on the other clothes there. was a l.a. was. like. load the load up here was. the. week he got home he said. he. yeah. i mean and then some of. the. family life and tries to leave. fiona to come. with the golf. to do boosh. for my own
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science. i mean if this is god's will is the one thing that. is not divine i would be in a prison you're teaching. that if you.
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