Namibia notes 1st remembrance day for 'Germany's forgotten genocide'
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Forty years before the Holocaust, Germany used concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments to torture and kill more than 70,000 Africans in what was then called South West Africa. German colonizers targeted the Ovaherero and Nama communities because they refused to give up their land and ca…
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Forty years before the Holocaust, Germany used concentration camps and pseudoscientific experiments to torture and kill more than 70,000 Africans in what was then called South West Africa. German colonizers targeted the Ovaherero and Nama communities because they refused to give up their land and ca…
The inaugural commemoration event for genocide victims under colonial German rule has been held. Namibia's president said more needed to be done to reach an agreement on reparations.
Namibia has marked the mass killings of Indigenous people by former colonial ruler Germany in the early 20th century with its first genocide remembrance day.
