Monday, June 17, 2013

Questions to those who support the Woyanne Nile dam scam

Postby elias » 



Those Ethiopians who claim that they are supporting Woyanne Nile scam on national interest grounds have set aside the knowledge they have about Woyanne's over 20 years of lies, deceit, secret deals, the give away of Ethiopian land to Sudan and others, mass murders, and all of its anti-Ethiopia activities. I am encouraged that many patriotic Ethiopians are starting to raise questions, but to those who are still putting their trust on the anti-Ethiopia Woyanne to build a dam that will benefit Ethiopia, I have the following questions:

1. What do you know about the secret deals Woyanne signed with Sudan and others regarding Nile? For example, do you know that the dam will be only partially owned by Ethiopia, if at all?

2. Why is the dam being built right at the border with Sudan, in 'Benishangul-Gumuz region', a region that is carved out of Gojjam by Woyanne?

3. Why did Egypt keep quite for the past 2 years and just now has started to voice opposition? And why is Sudan, who historically opposed any dam on the Nile in Ethiopia, is fully supporting Woyanne's Nile scam now?

4. There are many rives in Ethiopia that are not being utilized for irrigation and hydroelectric power. Instead of spending billions of dollars on building a giant dam over Nile, why not utilize those rivers first?

5. What guarantee do you have that Woyanne doesn't invoke Article 39 of its constitution and make Benishangul-Gumuz an independent country to be exploited by "Greater Tigray", Sudan and others? Currently, Gambella and Benishangul are being emptied of their indigenous people and the land is being taken over by Woyanne and foreign investors, according to the Oakland Institute. How could any Ethiopian, who knows Woyanne's history of selling and harming Ethiopian interests and looting the country dry, trusts the same Woyanne to build a dam that benefits Ethiopia? Isn't this mind-boggling foolishness?

6. People from the Amhara ethnic group are particular targets of the Woyanne apartheid regime. Woyanne has been committing genocidal crimes against Ogaden and Gambella people. And while Oromo farmers are suffering, Woyanne is forcing them to sell their cattle and farm products below market prices for export to the Middle East. Most Ethiopians are second class citizens in their own country. Do you really believe that the same brutal regime that is tormenting the people of Ethiopia will build a dam that benefits them?

7. Some argue that the dam will stay after Woyanne is gone? Given the anti-Ethiopia nature of Woyanne and the polices it is currently implementing, how can you be sure that Ethiopia will continue to exist as a country after Woyanne is gone? Why don't we focus on getting rid of the anti-Ethiopia Woyanne junta, instead of giving it a boost to continue to brutalize and torment our people, and put Ethiopia's survival at risk?

I'd appreciate answers to the above questions by those non-Woyannes who are saying that they support the Nile scam.

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