As Rwanda marked 25 years since the 1994 genocide, The Reporter Ethiopia ran a stark opinion warning: Ethiopians across communities feared that ethnic polarization at home could slide toward mass atrocity if political entrepreneurs kept normalizing hatred.
The piece was not a careful legal genocide determination. It was a domestic alarm bell—using Rwanda’s anniversary as a mirror for Ethiopia’s own hate speech, displacement, and militia politics in the reform years.
Kept as reference, it shows how early the “never again” language entered Ethiopian public debate after 2018. Later atrocities and investigations make that 2019 anxiety read less like hyperbole and more like an unanswered warning.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia
