Germany officially recognizes its colonial crimes in Namibia as genocide
Germany officially recognizes its colonial crimes in Namibia as genocide Xinhua © Provided by Xinhua German colonial rulers committed genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples from 1904 to 1908. According to historians, 60,000 Herero and 10,000 out of 20,000 Nama were killed during the time. BERLIN, May 28 (Xinhua) -- More than 100 years after Germany was a colonial power in Namibia, the German government officially recognized the atrocities committed against the Herero and Nama ethnic groups as genocide, the Federal Foreign Office announced on Friday. After more than five years of negot...
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