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Kayapos from the Amazon join protest demanding protection of world heritage

Representatives of dam-affected communities and international organizations from South America, the Middle East, Europe, the US, and Africa today blocked the entrance to the construction site of the Ilisu dam in southeast Turkey demanding an end to the controversial development that would sink an ancient city dating back to the Bronze Age.

Twenty people including Kayapo Chief Megaron Txucarramae, one of Brazil's most important indigenous leaders in the struggle against the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon, held up banners in English and Turkish reading 'Rivers Unite, Dams Divide: Stop Ilisu and Belo Monte dams'. Delegates from the International Rivers Conference held in Istanbul last Saturday joined local protestors to show solidarity with their struggle to stop the Ilisu dam on the Tigris River, Turkey's last free-flowing river.

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