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Manaus (Brazil), March 25 (EFE) .- The indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon today asked the international community helps with the "threat" posed to its territory the colossal work culture of the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, which is built the jungle in the Amazon state of Para.
"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 indigenous leader in a press Juruna news conference in the Brazilian city of Manaus.
hydroelectric works, which began this month in the municipality 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, one tributary of the Amazon, according to numerous reports of NGOs.
Belo Monte will generate 11,233 megawatts at times of flood the river will flood about 516 square miles of forest, which also will draw from their land to some 50,000 people.
Juruna warned that the work of Belo Monte 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 hydropower.
"Brazil needs development, but sustainably and with respect to indigenous peoples, "said indigenous leader, wearing the typical dress of their community, under the Sustainability World Forum II, held in Manaus, capital of Amazonas state.
denounced the "sham" of the Brazilian Government said that the dam will not affect the Amazonian communities and warned that indigenous peoples will resort to "force" to defend their territories.
The dam will cost about 10,600 million dollars, as calculated Government, will be the third largest in the world, behind the Three Gorges (China) and Itaipu, 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 the work does not have 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 in the next five years shot many documentaries to show the challenges facing humanity and awareness of the need to promote sustainable development, while reiterating that filmed the second part 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" indigenous considered as the ultimate authority in these territories.
The Kayapo chief, another indigenous leader, warned that the work of Belo Monte "break" the natural rhythm of the fauna of the Xingu river 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 jungle Amazon.
Indigenous leader confessed to being "full of rage" against those who support the construction of the dam and against those who have no respect for human rights of its people.
As a gesture of thanks to Cameron for their support to the indigenous cause, the chief Kayapo filmmaker honored with the title "Kaprinbtí" figure in the Kayapo tribal language means "man strong and magical. "
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