I couldn't even finish watching the video.This is horrible.Why are they doing this?

If this isn't getting publicized in the legitimate World Press, then that suggests that MAYBE it is another one of those FAKE videos, such as the one where an Iranian boy is having his arm supposedly "crushed," by a truck running over it. Here is the English-language version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st48Tdd9Sz4 +5

I'm more indignant that you believe the "world authorities" should be doing something. Brazil should be doing something, as this is happening in Brazil.

Being that I don't speak Portugese (I'm guessing on the language), I am not 100% sure what is going on. Maybe I got mixed up, but it does not seem like they are killing them since they appeared to dig them back out. I saw a breathing apparatus. It's probably scary but harmless. If that is the case, it seems strange but nothing "the world" should be policing since it is likely some rite of passage and much less severe than some of the things that happen in US fraternity hazing rituals. There are women having their clits cut off and vaginas sewn shut in parts of the world as part of custom. If we tried to police every native custom we would be on constant invade mode.

because most people are egotistic ans just want money and power

you could forward this to Amnesty International or your congressman....

This video was staged. Some of the camera angles give that away. But apparently it's a real issue. As horrible as it is, it is up to Brazil to do something about it. If they don't have the will, then there is really nothing to be done. We have different, but equally appalling problems in the U.S. and we could make a difference by taking care of our own.

----- (ADDED: First part. The second Part only shows the views of the film makers) ----- ----- (I also noticed afterwards that the site quoted in point 2 is an evangelical site) --- 1) "‘Hakani’ is a film produced by the American fundamentalist missionary organisation Youth With a Mission. It claims to be the “true story” of a Brazilian Indian child called Hakani who was supposedly buried alive by her tribe, the Suruwaha. In fact, the film was faked – and even the missionaries who produced it ‘admit there is no way to verify what they say happened‘." "Extracts below: YOU OBJECT TO THE FILM ‘HAKANI’. WHY? Stephen Corry: It’s faked. It puts together footage from many different Indian tribes and uses trick photography to make its point. It wasn’t filmed in an Indian community, the earth covering the children’s faces is actually chocolate cake, and the Indians in the film were paid as actors. THE FILMMAKERS SAY IT’S A RE-ENACTMENT, NOT A FAKE. HOW DO YOU RESPOND? Stephen Corry: It’s presented as entirely real. The opening title of the complete film reads, ‘A true story’, and only at the very end is the viewer told it’s a re-enactment. The trailer, which has been seen by far more people, doesn’t mention it at all. If it were broadcast here, that would be mandatory. If [the infanticide] happened as portrayed, it’s an extraordinary isolated case. After decades of working in Amazonia, we know of no Indian peoples where parents are told to kill their children. It just doesn’t happen. WHY OPPOSE THE FILM IF IT’S JUST TRYING TO STOP INFANTICIDE? Stephen Corry: The film and its message are harmful. They focus on what they claim happens routinely in Indian communities, but it doesn’t. It incites feelings of hatred against Indians. Look at the comments on the YouTube site, things like, ‘So get rid of these native tribes. They suck’, and, ‘Those amazon mother f—-ers burrying (sic) little kids, kill them all’. The filmmakers should be ashamed of all the harm this film is doing to the people they are trying to help. It’s propaganda to bolster the evangelical campaign for a very dangerous principle, the so-called Muwaji law, which has been presented to the Brazilian Congress. WHAT’S THAT? The Muwaji law focuses on what it calls ‘traditional practices’ and says what the state and citizens must do about them. It says that if anyone thinks there is a risk of ‘harmful traditional practices’, they must report it. If they don’t, they are liable to imprisonment. The authorities must intervene and remove the children and/or their parents. All this because someone, anyone, a missionary for example, claims there is some risk." Source and further information: http://www.survival-international.org/about/hakani Further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakani:_A_Survivor's_Story 2) "After being born, November 21, 2003 at 7 am, he was buried alive by his mother, Kanui. She was carrying out a ritual prescribed by the cultural norms of the Kamaiurás, which require that children of unwed mothers be buried alive. To seal the fate of Amalé his grandparents walked on top of the mound. Nobody heard even a cry from the child. Two hours after the ceremony, in a gesture of defiance against the whole tribe, his aunt Kamiru set out to disinter the baby. She recalls that his eyes and nose were bleeding profusely and that he first began to cry only eight hours later. The older Indians believe that Amalé only escaped death because that day the earth of the pit was mixed with numerous leaves and sticks, which could have created a small air bubble. The dramatic story of this little Indian is the visible face of a cruel reality, one that is repeated in many tribes spread throughout Brazil and that is often done with the connivance of the administrators of the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI), the government agency that cares for Indians." "FUNAI hides many cases like this one, but the investigators have discovered the practice of infanticide in at least 13 ethnic groups, such as the Ianomâmis, the Tapirapés and the Madihas. The Ianomâmis alone, in 2004, killed 98 children. The Kamaiurás, the tribe of Amalé and Kamiru, kill between 20 and 30 per year. The motives of infanticide vary from tribe to tribe, as do the methods used to kill the little ones. In addition to the children of single mothers, handicapped and mentally retarded children are also condemned to death. Twins can also be sacrificed. Some ethnic groups believe that one represents good and the other evil, and therefore, because they don't know which is which, eliminate both of them. Others believe that only animals can give birth to more than one offspring at a time. There are other motives, even more worthless, such as cases of Indians that kill those who are born with simple birth marks - those children, according to them, might bring a curse upon the tribe. The rituals of execution consist in burying alive, choking, or hanging the babies. Generally it is the mother herself who must execute the child, although there may be cases in which she can be helped by the father. The Indians themselves are beginning to rebel against the barbarity. At this moment, there are at least ten indigenous children in Brasilia who were condemned to death in their villages. They fled with the help of religious people and survive in the capital thanks to a private organization, Atini, directed by Protestant missionaries and supported by Catholics." Source and further information: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08022604.html

There was quite a bit of editing to that film...which makes it unbelievable.

I don't think it is real. Why didn't anybody fight to stop that guy? If the family members were so upset as they said in the English version why just stand there and like watching nothing special? If it was real then how is it any different than what we do in America? I guess it is more humane to rip the children apart in little pieces, or inject saline solution into their brain to eat it away while there still in the womb instead of waiting until they are 5 or 6 years old to torture them to death.

OMG!! that is horrible, but those uncivilized tribes have customs for all sorts of things that would not fly in the cilized world - poor kids!

If the tribes common practice was to bury their children, alive, they wouldn't be around long. If the film was made by missionaries, then nothing in it can be believed. One of the worst things that happened to the "new world" was the arrival of missionaries. I don't believe anything about this film.