The Brazilian government will end the Xingu communities with the construction of Belo Monte dam. All international support is valid !
We are Munduruku, Xipaya indigenous Kayapo Macaw, and Tupinambá. We live in the
river and the forest and we are opposed to destroy them both. You already know us,
but now we are more.
His Government said that if we left the construction site, we would be heard. We
went out peacefully-and prevent you from spending a lot of shame in taking the force
here. Even so, we have not been met. The Government has not received us. We call by
Minister Gilberto Carvalho and it didn’t come.
Wait and call does not serve for nothing. Then we we once again your construction
site. We did not want to be back in your holes and concrete desert. We have no
pleasure in going out of our homes in our lands and hang in their networks. But, as
you don’t see? If we don’t, we’ll lose our land.
We want the suspension of studies and the construction of dams that flood our
territories, which cut the forest in the Middle, which kill fish and amazing
animals, opening the river and the land to the devouring mining. They bring more
companies, more loggers, more conflicts, more prostitution, more drugs, more
diseases, more violence.
We require to be consulted previously on these constructs, because it is a right our
guaranteed by the Constitution and international treaties. This has not been done
here in Belo Monte, was not done in Teles Pires and is not being done in the
Tapajós. It is not possible that all of you will continue by repeating that we
Indians were consulted. Everyone knows that this is not true.
As of now the Government has to stop saying lies in notes and interviews. And treat
us as children, naive, irresponsible, and not manipulated. We are we and the
Government must deal with this. And do not lie to the press that we are fighting
with the workers: they are sympathetic to our cause! We wrote a letter to them
yesterday!.Here at construction site we played ball together every day. When we left
the other time, a worker who gave many necklaces and bracelets told us: “I’ll miss
you”.
We have the support of many relatives in that fight. We have the support of all the
indigenous Xingu. We have the support of the Kayapo. We have the support of the
Tupinambá. The Guajajara. The Apinajé, Xerente, Krahô, Karaja, Xambioá-Tapuia,
Krahô-Kanela, Avá-Canoero, javae Kanela Tocantins and Guarani. And the list is
growing. We have the support of all the national and international society and it
also bothers you enough to you, that they are alone with their campaign donors and
companies interested in craters and money.
We are looking again at your construction site-and how many times you will need to
do this until its own law is fulfilled? How many prohibited keep banks open during
strikes, fines and amortisation of possession will cost until we are heard? How many
rubber bullets, bombs and pepper sprays do you plan to spend until you take that are
wrong? Or will you kill again? How many guys will kill more Indians beyond our
relative Munduruku, the village Teles Pires, simply because we do not want the dam?
And do not send the National Force to negotiate for you. Come yourselves. We want
Dilma come talk with us.
river and the forest and we are opposed to destroy them both. You already know us,
but now we are more.
His Government said that if we left the construction site, we would be heard. We
went out peacefully-and prevent you from spending a lot of shame in taking the force
here. Even so, we have not been met. The Government has not received us. We call by
Minister Gilberto Carvalho and it didn’t come.
Wait and call does not serve for nothing. Then we we once again your construction
site. We did not want to be back in your holes and concrete desert. We have no
pleasure in going out of our homes in our lands and hang in their networks. But, as
you don’t see? If we don’t, we’ll lose our land.
We want the suspension of studies and the construction of dams that flood our
territories, which cut the forest in the Middle, which kill fish and amazing
animals, opening the river and the land to the devouring mining. They bring more
companies, more loggers, more conflicts, more prostitution, more drugs, more
diseases, more violence.
We require to be consulted previously on these constructs, because it is a right our
guaranteed by the Constitution and international treaties. This has not been done
here in Belo Monte, was not done in Teles Pires and is not being done in the
Tapajós. It is not possible that all of you will continue by repeating that we
Indians were consulted. Everyone knows that this is not true.
As of now the Government has to stop saying lies in notes and interviews. And treat
us as children, naive, irresponsible, and not manipulated. We are we and the
Government must deal with this. And do not lie to the press that we are fighting
with the workers: they are sympathetic to our cause! We wrote a letter to them
yesterday!.Here at construction site we played ball together every day. When we left
the other time, a worker who gave many necklaces and bracelets told us: “I’ll miss
you”.
We have the support of many relatives in that fight. We have the support of all the
indigenous Xingu. We have the support of the Kayapo. We have the support of the
Tupinambá. The Guajajara. The Apinajé, Xerente, Krahô, Karaja, Xambioá-Tapuia,
Krahô-Kanela, Avá-Canoero, javae Kanela Tocantins and Guarani. And the list is
growing. We have the support of all the national and international society and it
also bothers you enough to you, that they are alone with their campaign donors and
companies interested in craters and money.
We are looking again at your construction site-and how many times you will need to
do this until its own law is fulfilled? How many prohibited keep banks open during
strikes, fines and amortisation of possession will cost until we are heard? How many
rubber bullets, bombs and pepper sprays do you plan to spend until you take that are
wrong? Or will you kill again? How many guys will kill more Indians beyond our
relative Munduruku, the village Teles Pires, simply because we do not want the dam?
And do not send the National Force to negotiate for you. Come yourselves. We want
Dilma come talk with us.
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