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Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams
2013-04-08 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by dam builders. The Munduruku indigenous group in Para state say they have been betrayed by the authorities, who are pushing ahead with plans to build a cascade of hydropower plants on the Tapajós river without their permission. Public prosecutors, human rights groups, environmental organizations and Christian missionaries have condemned what they call...
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