ŽÈ〆PUBLIC :
This dam you see the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam it is not just stone and water. It is Ethiopia’s blood.
More than 15,000 lives were lost in its making. Poor farmers, students, mothers, and workers gave their last coins when they had nothing, because they believed in a brighter tomorrow. We built it while we were broke, while we were hungry, while the world doubted us.
For generations, Ethiopia watched the Nile flow away while our children sat in the dark, while our people starved in droughts. We suffered in silence, but we never lost hope.
And now, when we finally rise, when our hands have built something with sacrifice and faith, some come to us and say: “Let us share it.”
But where were you when Ethiopia was thirsty? Where were you when famine struck our land? Sharing is not taking the fruit of someone else’s struggle. Sharing is walking together from the beginning.
We are not closing the Nile. We are not stealing life from anyone. The water still flows. The Nile is God’s gift for all. But Ethiopia, too, deserves to live, to grow, to stand in dignity.
GERD is not just a dam. It is a symbol of African pride, a symbol that even the poorest can rise with unity and sacrifice. We ask not for pity, not for permission only for respect
2025-09-09 15:53:46