( CNN ) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales has put the brakes on a controversial road project through a national park in the Amazon rainforest where indigenous communities live . `` The road project in the indigenous park ... is suspended , '' Morales announced Monday , after 41 days of sometimes violent protests . Before the project can proceed , it will have to pass a referendum in Cochabamba and Beni provinces , where the road would be located , according to the president . The announcement came as Morales condemned weekend violence between police and an indigenous group protesting the construction . `` We ... do not share the use of violence and the abuse toward the indigenous brothers who were on the march , '' the president said . Some indigenous leaders said a baby was killed , but Morales said there was no evidence to support the claim . `` We do not know of the death of a baby or child ; I hope it did not happen , '' the president . said . But Jose Ortiz , leader of the Indigenous from northern La Paz , said `` this attack ... will stay in the memory of all Bolivians . ... We are outraged . '' Hundreds of people gathered Monday in the capital , La Paz , to denounce the violence , chanting `` killers , killers , killers '' to police . Bienvenido Zacu , the deputy of the Guarayos Indigenous people from Santa Cruz called the violence `` a violation of the human rights , '' saying it was the first time he had seen `` this kind of abuse by an Indian government . '' Some groups are planning a general strike for Wednesday .
The suspension follows 41 days of protests . Violence broke out between demonstrators and police Sunday . A referendum is required for the project to restart . TL;DR Protests over a controversial dam in Peru have left at least three people dead.