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Herero genocide in Namibia - Propaganda painting showing German soldiers confronting Herero fighters.

Opinion

A stroll into Germany’s conflicted postcolonial memory

18 September 2023 by Anne Van Mourik

Berlin still has a monument commemorating German soldiers who died as “heroes” during the Namibian campaign, which resulted in the genocide of the Herero and Nama about 120 years ago. This tombstone shows how dominant and resistan [...]

Opinion

Namibian genocide: why Germany’s bid to make amends isn’t enough

10 June 2021 by Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber

On 28 May, Germany acknowledged that it committed genocide against the Herero and Namas peoples in Namibia between 1904 and 1908. Germany and Namibia signed an agreement that includes the payment of 1.1 billion euros over 30 years [...]

Namibians victim of genocide press for German apology

13 September 2018 by Ephrem Rugiririza

More than a century after massacres of indigenous people in former German South West Africa, now Namibia, their descendants and members of German civil society are pressing Berlin for an official apology. The recent returning of r [...]

Opinion

Week in Review: Steps towards justice for a forgotten genocide

20 March 2017 by François Sergent

Transitional justice this week caught up with the colonial German army’s genocide of Herero and Nama people in Namibia in 1904, seen as the first genocide in history. A New York judge accepted a complaint filed by descendants of H [...]

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17 March 2017 by AFP

ICC : Namibia demands $30 bln for German genocide of Herero people Namibia is to launch a 30-billion-dollar (28-billion-euro) lawsuit against Germany over genocide committed during colonial rule, when tens of thousands of people were killed, according to documents seen by AFP on Friday. The Namib [...]

9 January 2017 by François Sergent, JusticeInfo.net

Week in Review: Spotlight on genocide In this first week of the year, we were reminded of a “genocide” that has been largely forgotten, even if historians consider it the first such mass crime of the 20th century. This is the genocide of Hereros and Namas in Namibia b [...]

5 January 2017 by Pierre Hazan, JusticeInfo editorial advisor and associate professor at Neuchâtel University

Germany set to atone for genocide in Namibia A century after losing its South-West Africa colony, now Namibia, Germany is debating how to close one of the darkest chapters of its colonial period: the extermination of over 80% of Hereros, which was the first genocide of the 2 [...]

14 October 2016 by AFP

Indigenous Namibians furious over German reparations 'insult' Indigenous Namibians lashed out Friday at Germany for refusing to pay reparations for the genocide of their people a century ago, calling it a "phenomenal" insult to victims' descendents. Germany has been in negotiations with its [...]