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Namibia: 'Fight With Germany Over Genocide Far From Over'
New Era, 28 September 2020
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… Read more »
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Namibia: Genocide Appeal Fails in U.S. Court
Namibian, 29 September 2020
A United States appeal court has dismissed an appeal against a New York district court's ruling that a lawsuit over the colonial German authorities' genocide of Namibia's Ovaherero… Read more »
Namibia's Fight With Germany Over Genocide Far From Over
Despite the ruling by a U.S. Court of Appeals that threw out an appeal by the Ovaherero and Nama, who are suing the German government over atrocities committed in Namibia, Ovaherero Paramount Chief Vekuii Rukoro says they will keep on fighting. The case was first brought by indigenous Ovaherero and Nama people and the descendants of at least 100,000 people killed by German soldiers from 1904 to 1908 in what is now Namibia. While the court agrees that it did not have jurisdiction to deal with the case, it noted that "the terrible wrongs elucidated in the Plaintiffs' complaint must be addressed through a vehicle other than the U.S. court system."
InFocus
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More than a century since Germany's colonial empire committed numerous atrocities in Africa, the federal government is reportedly being forced to contend with its past head on. ... Read more »
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New York Federal Judge Laura Taylor Swain has dismissed a compensation lawsuit lodged against Germany by two Namibian tribes for genocide and property seizures in colonial times. ... Read more »
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Namibian President Hage Geingob has turned down what they say was Germany's offer of €10 million (U.S.$11.7 million) in reparations for the genocide committed by the German ... Read more »
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The German government has acknowledged the mass killings of the Nama and Ovaherero, more than 100 years ago as genocide and is willing to apologise to affected communities, ... Read more »
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The President of the German Bundesrat Daniel Günther says his country is still haunted by the terror that Germany brought to the people of Namibia at the beginning of the 20th ... Read more »
