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Brazil's Proposed Belo Monte Dam Damns Amazonian Rainforests and Peoples
By Rainforest Portal, a project of Ecological Internet
April 25, 2010
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=brazil_xingu
The Brazilian government continues with plans to build the massive Belo Monte
Dam on the Xingu River in the Amazon rainforest, despite massive domestic and
international opposition. The 11.2 billion dollar dam will flood an estimated
500 square kilometers of the Amazon rainforest and threaten the survival of
tens of thousands of indigenous and traditional peoples who depend on the Xingu
River for their livelihoods. The Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire, who gained
international exposure touring the world with Sting, said indigenous men from
the Xingu were preparing their bows and arrows in order to fight off the dam.
"I think that today the war is about to start once more and the Indians will be
forced to kill the white men again so they leave our lands alone.
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