{"id":272947,"date":"2019-04-13T03:09:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T07:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvbGVzdC1yd2FuZGEtZ2Vub2NpZGUtcmVwZWF0ZWQtZXRoaW9waWHSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:15","slug":"lest-the-rwanda-genocide-be-repeated-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/272947","title":{"rendered":"Lest the Rwanda genocide be repeated in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Rwanda marked 25 years since the 1994 genocide, The Reporter Ethiopia ran a stark opinion warning: Ethiopians across communities feared that <strong>ethnic polarization<\/strong> at home could slide toward mass atrocity if political entrepreneurs kept normalizing hatred.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-336219\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Amnesty-Internaional-barbed-candle.jpg?fit=780%2C439&ssl=1\" alt=\"Lest the Rwanda genocide be repeated in Ethiopia\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The piece was not a careful legal genocide determination. It was a domestic alarm bell\u2014using Rwanda\u2019s anniversary as a mirror for Ethiopia\u2019s own hate speech, displacement, and militia politics in the reform years.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as reference, it shows how early the \u201cnever again\u201d 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/lest-rwanda-genocide-repeated-ethiopia\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest the Rwanda genocide is repeated in Ethiopia!&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaAs Rwandans commemorated the 25th anniversary of the horrific 1994 genocide on April 7 Ethiopians from different walks of life expressed trepidation at the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":336219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Amnesty-Internaional-barbed-candle.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-190n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600523,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272947\/revisions\/600523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}