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May 29, 2025

Namibia Marks First National Genocide Remembrance Day with Calls for Reparations from Germany
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Namibia has issued fresh calls for reparations from Germany as Namibia
marked its first national Genocide Remembrance Day Wednesday. Between
1904 and 1908, German colonial invaders killed up to 100,000 Indigenous
people, most from the Ova Herero and Nama communities. This is Ova
Herero leader Hoze Riruako.

Hoze Riruako: "What has happened here, because this is the first
genocide of the 20th century, this was actually the prelude to the - you
know, to the Holocaust. But this is not recorded anywhere. People are
not aware of what has happened here, to the same level and same extent
as some of the other atrocities."



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