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Namibia:
Genocide and the History of Violent Expansionism
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
The 20th century had been termed the "century of genocides". In 2004 the first of a series of these turned a hundred years. It reminded us of a history of mass violence directed… Read more »
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Namibia:
The Book of Condolence
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
To mark the occasion of the restitution by the Berlin Charité Hospital of the first 20 mortal remains of Namibian victims of the German genocide, the German NGO Coalition… Read more »
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Namibia:
'We Have Come Back Home...'
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
Statement by Chief Alfons Kaihepovazandu Maharero, Chairman of the Ovaherero/ Ovambanderu Council for the Dialogue on the 1904 Genocide (OCD-1904), on the Occasion of the 'Requiem… Read more »
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Africa:
German Denial of Herero Genocide
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
The Germans' inhuman treatment of the Namibian delegation is only the most recent in a long history of injustice and disrespect towards African peoples. It is more than time,… Read more »
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Namibia:
German Denialism - How Not to Come to Terms With the Past
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
Largely unnoticed by most Namibians, the local German-language daily Allgemeine Zeitung provides a forum for colonial apologetics. Reinhart Kössler and Henning… Read more »
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Namibia:
The return of the Herero and Nama skulls- Coming to Terms With a Difficult History
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
In his analysis of the failure over more than two decades to deal with the genocide, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari looks at the changing attitudes of Namibia's SWAPO-led government and… Read more »
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Africa:
The Absence of Reconciliation
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both Germany and German-speaking Namibians to… Read more »
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Africa:
Skullduggery and Necrophilia in Colonial Namibia
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
Names, dates, statistics, records, photographs - Namibia-based historian, Casper W. Erichsen, explains some of the factual evidence of the multiple atrocities that were part of the… Read more »
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Namibia:
Return of Stolen Skulls by Germany - Closure of a Horrible Chapter?
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
Refuting in detail the arguments proffered by Germany on the questions of apology and compensation for the genocide of the Herero and the Nama, Dr Kwame Opoku notes that the… Read more »
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Africa:
The Significance of the Repatriation of Namibian Human Skulls
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
Former Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, who was instrumental in getting the repatriation process with Charité started, calls upon both Namibians and… Read more »
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Africa:
Germany's Genocide in Namibia - Unbearable Silence, or How Not to Deal With Your Colonial Past?
Fahamu, 22 March 2012
On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a motion to acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero peoples. Germany's refusal thus far, and its less… Read more »
