🌹 To the Mothers of Tigray: Pillars of Resistance, Symbols of Hope

   Today, as the world celebrates Mother’s Day, we honor *you*—the mothers of Tigray. To the women who carried life in your wombs while war raged at your doors. To those who buried your children in unmarked graves, then wiped tears to feed orphans of strangers. To survivors of weaponized rape, who refused to let your bodies *or* spirits break. To mothers sheltering in dust-choked camps or exiled under Sudan’s sun, still humming lullabies to children who whisper, “When will we go home?”  

**Your Womb Was a Fortress**  

War is waged on mothers. They tried to erase Tigray’s future by starving your children, bombing hospitals, and violating bodies in a campaign called “dismantling the womb.” But you defied them:  

- You birthed fighters and fed armies with hands calloused from farming *and* grief.  

- You smuggled seeds in your skirts to replant fields salted by occupation.  

- You endured rape as warriors—surviving, loving, refusing to let hatred win.  

**Your Silence Roars Louder Than Guns 💔**  

In displacement camps, you ration water to wash daughters’ faces. In Sudan’s deserts, you barter your last bracelet for bread, saying, “Eat—I’m not hungry.” You stitch torn clothes by moonlight, hands trembling from memories no mother should bear.  

**They thought:**  

- Rape would silence you. *You whispered:* “We’re still here.”  

- Hunger would break you. *You taught:* “Share a single bean. This is how we endure.”  

- Exile would erase you. *You traced maps of Tigray in sand,* telling stories of home.  

**To the World: See These Architects of Survival**  

- **Mothers of Massacres**, who identified sons by scars you kissed as babies.  

- **Mothers of Missing Daughters**, lighting candles in shattered windows.  

- **Mothers of the Displaced**, turning rags into blankets, despair into defiance.  

**To Leaders: A Prayer for Mercy**  

May God plant innocence in hearts hardened by politics. Tigray will heal not through power, but *justice*:  

- Return stolen land.  

- Honor martyrs’ graves.  

- Bring mothers home.  

**To Mothers in IDP Camps:** Your tears water seeds of a future harvest.  

**To Mothers in Sudan’s Deserts:** Your prayers are our compass.  

**To Mothers of the Martyred:** Your children’s names are etched in the sky.  

**You Are the Soil of Tigray**  

They burned fields, but you are the earth—ancient, fertile, unbreakable. They shattered homes, but you rebuilt hope in rubble. They exiled you, but you carry Tigray in your heartbeat.  

**This Mother’s Day, We Vow:**  

🔹 To scream your stories until the world listens.  

🔹 To fight for your right to return, rebuild, and reclaim.  

🔹 To never let your sacrifices be footnotes in history.  

*You are the memory, present, and future of Tigray. When dawn breaks over a free nation, it will be because YOU kept its light alive.*  

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