Africa Links 24 with Shelleygan Petersen
Published on 2024-07-03 17:00:00
The German government has for the first time in 120 years admitted that the 1904-1908 massacre that killed more than 60 000 Nama and Herero people should be classified as a genocide.
Initially, the two governments acknowledged, in a joint declaration, that by today’s standards, the massacres would be classified as a genocide.
The descendants of the affected communities say Germany should have called it what it was – a genocide – at the time of the negotiations.
In 2021,…
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