the Amazon Indians use force for fear of disappearing
Release Date: 25/03/2011
Source: Yahoo News
Province / Region : Brazil
The plant will generate 11,233 megawatts at times of flood the Xingu River, a tributary of the Amazon, flooding 516 square miles of forest, which obliged to abandon their land to 50,000 people.
"The Brazilian government does not respect the human rights of indigenous people and their own laws. We ask the world to support our cause not disappear," he declared vehemently Sheyla Juruna indigenous leader in a press conference in the Brazilian city of Manaus.
hydroelectric works, which began this March in the town of Altamira (Pará), will cause irreparable damage to the ecosystem and the lives of Indians and peasants living on the banks of the Xingu River, as many NGOs.
The Ministry of Environment has repeatedly denied the project's environmental impact, defined as one of the "most important" for the Brazilian electricity sector.
Juruna said, however, that the work is a "project delusion" that benefit only "small groups of capitalists," and called on the Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff, to develop alternative projects to the construction of hydroelectric .
"Brazil needs development, but in a sustainable manner and respecting indigenous peoples," said indigenous leader, wearing the typical dress of their community, during the Second World Sustainability Forum, held in Manaus, capital of Amazonas state.
Juruna denounced the "sham" of the Brazilian Government said that the dam will not affect the Amazonian communities and warned that indigenous people will resort to "force" to defend their territories.
According to government estimates, the hydroelectric plant, which cost about U.S. $ 10,600 million (7,500 million euros), will be the third largest in the world behind the Three Gorges (China) and Itaipu, which shared by Brazil and Paraguay.
In the struggle for "survival" of its territory, Juruna was now supported by film director James Cameron, who criticized Rousseff to go ahead with the project despite the fact that hydropower, he said, the work lacks popular support.
"These people have blood in Brazil and part of the country's culture," said award-winning filmmaker, who has embraced the cause of the Amazonian people and last year participated in protests against the construction of Belo Monte.
Cameron announced that the next five years shot many documentaries to show challenges facing humanity and awareness of the need to promote sustainable development, in addition to reiterating that filmed the second part of the successful "Avatar."
"We prefer to have a foreigner to defend our community and our country that a government which destroys our people," said Juruna referring to Cameron, in a press conference attended by several "experts" Indians, regarded as the highest authority in those territories.
The Kayapo chief, another indigenous leader, warned that the work of Belo Monte "break" the natural rhythm of the Xingu river fauna and force the community to find another power supply to the eventual migration of the species that inhabit it.
"Everything will be destroyed. The government knows this because we have informed you, but do not want to hear because they only think of the money they gain from this project," said the chief Kayapo, who spoke in a language of the Amazon rainforest.
The chief confessed to being "full of rage" against those who support the construction of the dam and against those who do not respect the human rights of its people.
As a gesture of thanks to Cameron for their support to the indigenous cause The chief described the filmmaker as "Kaprinbtí" in the Kayapo tribal language meaning "strong man magical."
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