%%title%% %%sep%% %%primary_category%% %%sep%% %%sitename%% %%sep%% A faction of the descendants of the 1904-1908 Ovaherero/Ovambanderu and Nama genocide plan to host a genocide memorial event in Windhoek from 26 to 28 May.
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The SWAPO government's defence of Berlin's compensation offer for its troops' genocide against the Herero and Nama fuels opposition, raising questions about a new hydrogen deal, Anger about the May 2021 genocide 'reconciliation' with Germany – under which Berlin is due to pay Namibia just €1.1 billion (US$1.3bn) over 30 years for its colonial massacres in 1904-8 – has been reignited by Defence Minister Frans Kapofi's defence of the deal. The row over the genocide deal and questions about its possible linkage to a pioneering but opaque hydrogen energy investment risks turning it into the first foreign relations farrago for the new government in Berlin in an era of growing awareness of colonial atrocities.
Berlin's belated offer of compensation for colonial atrocities won’t end the matter and is proving politically divisive, Germany has finally acknowledged that its colonial forces committed genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama and agreed to pay compensation, but these communities of central-eastern and southern Namibia say it is not enough.
Katjavivi mum on genocide…shrugs off ‘Judas’ tag
2021-06-03
Mumbuu
National Assembly Speaker Peter Katjavivi declined to be dragged into the genocide deal, where the Namibian and German governments purportedly reached a N$19 billion settlement.
Approached by journalists outside Parliament on Wednesday, he said the genocide matter would be dealt with by Prime Minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila next week when the National Assembly resumes.
Katjavivi, one of the most senior lawmakers in Namibia, is a descendant of the Ovaherero people, who, alongside their Nama compatriots, were massacred between 1904 and 1908. At least 80 000 Herero and 10 000 Nama people were killed by colonial Germany when they resisted the colonial occupation.