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CONFLICT IN NIGER DELTA the current conflict in Niger delta arose in the early 1990s over tensions between the foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger delta minority ethnic groups who felt they were being exploited, particularly the ogonis and the ljaw. Ethnic and political unrest has continued throughout the 1990s and persists as of 2007 despite the conversion to democracy and the election of obasanjo government in 1999. Competition for oil wealth has fueled violence between many ethnic groups, causing the militarization of nearly the entire region by ethnic militia groups as well as Nigeria mobile police victims of crimes are fearful of seeking justice for crimes committed against them because of growing impunity from prosecution for individuals responsible for serious human right abuses which has created a devastating cycle of increasing conflict and violence, the regional and ethnic conflicts are so numberous that fully datailing each is impossible and impractical. However, there have beena number of major confrontations that deserve elaboration.