Namibia marks inaugural Genocide Remembrance Day with call for reparations | Genocide News

Germany has acknowledged early 1900s genocide of Herero and Nama people, but reparations remain elusive.

Namibia has held its first Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people killed by German colonisers in the early 1900s, in what is widely considered the first genocide of the 20th century.

The southern African country’s president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, speaking at the event Wednesday, called again for reparations for the at least 70,000 Indigenous…

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News Source: www.aljazeera.com

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