“In the middle of the Amazon there are people. And people talk. If people don’t talk, the river will talk.”
“There was prostitution inside the schools.”
“Everything we had fruit in the upper and lower Madeira region, water killed everything.”
These are some of the phrases of characters who suffer from the socio-environmental impacts caused by the construction of the hydroelectric plants on the Madeira River, and who gained voice in the documentary “Jirau e Santo Antônio: Relatos de uma Guerra Amazonica”, produced by the Movimento dos Atingidos por Dams (Movimiento dos Atingidos por Dams) (Movimento dos Atingidos por Dams). MAB). The film will be released next Monday (05/30) at the Paulo Freire Auditorium, at the Federal University of Rondônia (Unir). The following day (31), there will be a new exhibition at Teatro Banzeiros, also in Porto Velho.
According to MAB, the documentary was filmed at the end of 2015 in cities such as Jaci Paraná, Nova Mutum, Velha Mutum and Abunã, all of them districts of Porto Velho and directly impacted by the works of the hydroelectric complex. In the film, there are testimonies from the population that suffered human rights violations, such as sexual violence against children and adolescents, abuse against women, environmental damage such as water contamination, illegal deforestation, in addition to unemployment and forced eviction without compensation of the families whose areas were flooded by dams. See the trailer here.
Among those interviewed is Nilce de Souza Magalhães, aka Nicinha, one of the leaders of the Madeira region who disappeared on January 7, 2016. The Civil Police of Rondônia arrested a young man and says he confessed to the murder. “She denounced the human rights violations suffered by the populations for the construction of the plants”, says the MAB.
According to João Dutra, from MAB’s coordination in Rondônia, the film intends to present to society “a kind of dossier, in which we denounce, with the testimonies of those affected, official documents and technical reports, the proof of various socio-environmental impacts and the systematic violations of human rights. along the Madeira River in the construction of the hydroelectric complex, reaffirming a pattern in force throughout the country since the military dictatorship”.
In addition to the exhibition, a debate with the presence of people affected by the Madeira dams is also scheduled to take place after the documentary session on the Unir campus. The presentation starts at 7 pm this Monday (30/05).
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