Exclusive interview with MEND (Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta)
Heydon Prowse | 27.05.2009 10:27
A humanitarian crisis is currently taking place in the Niger Delta as the army follows the examples of Israel and Sri Lanka and tries to flush out the militants from the swamps - killing and displacing civilians in the process. But then a humanitarian crisis has been taking place in the Niger Delta ever since oil production began there fifty years ago and oil companies began there slow dance with successive dictatorships. MEND are a rebel group who operate out of the Delta and have cut oil production in the area by as much as 20 percent in the last few years. Read there interview here:
http://www.dontpaniconline.com/magazine/home/exclusive-interview-with-mend---rambos-of-the-niger-delta
Heydon Prowse
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