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Article 4: "Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals."
Article 2 - Section C - Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
Article 4 (President Dilma Rousseff are you reading this?!) "Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals."
For 30 years Chief Raoni of The Kayapo People, has dedicated his life to trying to stop the Belo Monte Dam from being built in his beloved Amazon Rainforest. Helped by the singer, Sting, and many other celebrities along the way, he has met many World Leaders, travelling extensively in his efforts to get the World to Awaken to the Catastrophic Climate Nightmare awaiting the World, if Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff, continues ahead with building Belo Monte, third largest and most inefficient dam in the world, in the Rainforest, along with a further 59 Rainforest dams, and over 400 in Brazil by 2030. If Belo Monte continues to be built it will bring Genocide to Chief Raoni's People, to Shayla Juruna's, and ALL those dependant on the mighty River Xingu for their very *EXISTENCE* They have tried everything they can think of to stop this dam, but Dilma Rousseff refuses to listen to them, to people around the world, to experts, to the voices behind the MILLIONS of signatures collected against this outrage..
Chief Raoni, now in his 80s, has vowed to fight to the death with his Warriors rather than let Belo Monte be built.
On the 15th June, 2012, on the eve of Rio's Earth Summit, some of the Warriors, helped by friends, broke through the start of this dam, using shovels, pick-axes and their bare hands! A joyous message was sent out around the world and now thousands are starting to learn about Belo Monte. 11 of those who helped to break the dam, freeing the Xingu River again, are now possibly facing legal charges...As I write this, Warriors of the Xikrin Tribe, (related to The Kayapo) are now in their 17th Day of Protest at the construction site of Belo Monte, having stopped work on the dam by taking keys to the lorries and earth diggers.
'Belo Monte - Announcement of War' - BRILLIANT new film, filled with details of the horrors of Belo Monte, the Indigenous People so DEEPLY affected by it and those behind it.
'Voice of The Xingu' - (ENGLISH version with Portuguese SUBTITLES) Excellent video from Alfredo Villas-Boas, son of one of the three Villas-Boas Brothers, who first made contact with the Kayapo, in the 1930s, going on to ensure The Kayapo's protection from the modern world. Alfredo returns decades later to meet with Chief Raoni and find out more about the Belo Monte Dam, how it will affect the Kayapo and other tribes involved.
'Amazonian Communities Occupy The Belo Monte Dam' - Friday 15th June 2012, when The World Began To Wake to Belo Monte & The Destruction of the Rainforest!
AMAZON WATCH - They do SO much for the Amazon Communities. Many videos, much info on here.
'Earth Song' - Michael Jackson Part of this was filmed in The Amazon.