Germany to Return Remains - But Not Sorry for Namibia Genocide?

Finally, Germany will hand back human remains seized from Namibia over a century ago after the slaughter of indigenous people under German colonial rule - but descendants of the tens of thousands of the massacred have criticised the gesture as insufficient, without an apology.

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

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