Germany officially calls colonial-era killings in Namibia 'genocide'

Some 75,000 tribespeople were killed after a revolt against land seizures in what historians have called the first genocide of the 20th century.

BERLIN — Germany on Friday apologized for its role in slaughter of Herero and Nama tribespeople in Namibia more than a century ago and officially described the massacre as genocide for the first time, as it agreed to fund projects worth over a billion euros.

German soldiers killed some 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama members in a 1904-1908 campaign after a revolt against land seizures by colonists in what historians and the United Nations have long called the first genocide of the 20th century.

While Germany has previously acknowledged "moral responsibility" for the killings, it has avoided making an official apology for the massacres to avoid compensation claims.

In a statement announcing an agreement with Namibia following more than five years of negotiations, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the events of the German colonial period should be named "without sparing or glossing over them."

"We will now also officially call these events what they were from today's perspective: a genocide," Maas said.

"In light of Germany's historical and moral responsibility, we will ask Namibia and the descendants of the victims for forgiveness," he said.

Germany has agreed to fund 1.1 billion euros of reconstruction and development projects that would directly benefit the genocide-affected communities, he said.

Namibian media reported on Thursday that the money would fund infrastructure, healthcare and training programs over 30 years.

Germany, which lost all its colonial territories after World War One, was the third biggest colonial power after Britain and France. However, its colonial past was ignored for decades while historians and politicians focused more on the legacy of Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust.

In 2015, it began formal negotiations with Namibia over the issue and in 2018 it returned skulls and other remains of massacred tribespeople that were used in the colonial-era experiments to assert claims of European racial superiority.

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1268895

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The colonial masters really dealt with the children of AFRICA..while leaving they introduce religion( worst than slavery)

Dear Germany, just give their bright students visas, scholarship... etc. Giving such amount of money to an African leader would be an arrant waste cos it would be looted, and the lifestyle of those the money was meant to develop would be worse.

This I have seen.

Germany has agreed to fund 1.1 billion euros of reconstruction and development projects that would directly benefit the genocide-affected communities

Accepting ones wrong is a good step. The right compensation should be given. Please see my signature below. Thanks

1.1 billion Euros not fair but atleast their ancestors won’t be so enraged....

The Germans are better than the English Forget about the Holocaust... In the words of George Carlin “All Englishmen deserve to die”.

Avoid this in Nigeria too pls

As matter of urgency Britain should come and dissolve this marriage contracted since 1914. They have committed one of the greatest atrocities against humanity through this forced marriage.

White men are demonic

History never forgets. This is a nice gesture from the present German government




Is there any other word greater than genocide for what is happening in Nigeria right now?

White demo

Yesterday French president asked for forgiveness over french role in Rwanda genocide and today Germany is doing the same When will British government ask Nigeria for forgiveness

Okay

I believe they have apologized to the Jews too.

And when will Belgium apologize for the evil they did in Congo?

Pray for tigray

The effects of the brutal enslavement and eventual colonization of Africa is still being felt till today. Majority of black African countries still struggle to govern themselves because they are relying on governance infrastructure set up to benefit the colonizers instead of coming up with a style of governance suitable to them!

This one Mr Snake Lover is the one doing the posting today, Hmmm

J.K.

Ok oo... and how many were killed in Biafra war again?

I hope Nigeria doesn't get to this stage.

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Waiting for Terrorist Erdogan to do same with Armenia

Sarmiz24:
White men are demonic

Your fellow black men who kidnapped his own people to be sold as slaves in an unknown land are way worse.

Normal