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More than a century since #Germany’s colonial #genocide, #Ovaherero and #Nama peoples are still fighting for reparations
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»#Namibia marks colonial genocide for first time with memorial day«
Dubbed "#Germany's forgotten #genocide", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia.
»The victims, primarily from the #Ovaherero and #Nama communities, were targeted because they refused to let the colonisers take their land and cattle.«
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On this day in 1908 German colonial authorities closed their concentration camps in Namibia. Tens of thousands of Nama and Herero were killed from 1904-1908 in what is recognized today as genocide. www.dw.com/en/namibia-m... #Namibia #Nama #Herero #Germany #Africa #WestAfrica #Namaqua #Ovaherero
Namibia marks first Genocide R... -
On this day in 1908 German colonial authorities closed their concentration camps in Namibia. Tens of thousands of Nama and Herero were killed from 1904-1908 in what is recognized today as genocide. www.dw.com/en/namibia-m... #Namibia #Nama #Herero #Germany #Africa #WestAfrica #Namaqua #Ovaherero
Namibia marks first Genocide R... -
On this day in 1908 German colonial authorities closed their concentration camps in Namibia. Tens of thousands of Nama and Herero were killed from 1904-1908 in what is recognized today as genocide. www.dw.com/en/namibia-m... #Namibia #Nama #Herero #Germany #Africa #WestAfrica #Namaqua #Ovaherero
Namibia marks first Genocide R...