Ovaherero Paramount Chief Vekuii Rukoro says their fight with colonial power Germany over the 1904-1908 genocide was far from over despite last week's ruling by a US Court of Appeals in New York that threw out an appeal by the Ovaherero and Nama, who sued the German government over atrocities committed in Namibia.
In a court judgement delivered on Thursday, the appeals court upheld the US District Court for Southern New York's decision that it has no jurisdiction to hear the matter under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act.
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