Wed, Jul 15th, 2009
LAGOS, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Nigeria's major militant group in the oil rich Niger Delta region the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) threatened on Wednesday that it would immediately call off their just announced cease-fire if the government steps up its forces in the region.
"Barely 12 hours into our cease-fire, the military Joint Task Force has dispatched seven gun boats with heavily armed troops from Warri and are headed towards one of our camps located around the Delta/Ondo state border," the group spokesman Jomo Gbomo said in an e-mail statement reaching here.
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