Namibians Ponder Legal Action Over German Genocide

Despite growing acknowledgment in Germany that the 1906 extermination campaign against Namibians who resisted colonial rule constituted a "race war" or genocide, the granting of reparations appears a long way off.

German soldiers loading skulls and bones of massacred Herero into a casket for shipping to Germany.

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