{"id":32202,"date":"2024-03-08T22:39:23","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T06:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32202"},"modified":"2024-03-09T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T18:38:06","slug":"before-germanys-genocides-in-the-30s-and-40s-there-was-germanys-1904-genocide-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/before-germanys-genocides-in-the-30s-and-40s-there-was-germanys-1904-genocide-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"BEFORE GERMANY\u2019S GENOCIDES IN THE \u201930S AND \u201940S THERE WAS GERMANY\u2019S 1904 GENOCIDE IN NAMIBIA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A skull from the Herero and ethnic Nama people displayed during a ceremony at Berlin\u2019s Charite hospital September 30, 2011. The skull is one of twenty taken from victims who died at the hands of German colonial forces in Namibia between 1904 and 1908. Tobias Schwarz\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Blog Post by John Campbell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last updated August 2, 2017 (cfr.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In what is often called the twentieth century\u2019s first genocide, the German colonial authorities, from 1904 to 1906, set out systematically to exterminate two ethnic groups, the Herero and the Nama, following an uprising in what was then German South West Africa and what is now Namibia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Namibian government is currently in talks with the German government to demand that Berlin officially acknowledge that the genocide took place, issue an apology, and pay reparations. While Germany has already acknowledged the genocide occurred, it rejects any legal responsibility. International law did not address genocide at the time, argue the Germans. According to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>, a German diplomat said, \u201cThe German government uses this term (of genocide) in a historical-political sense, not in a legal sense.\u201d Germany also opposes reparations, which legally \u201cimplies liability.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Apologies and reparations for atrocities in the colonial past are complicated. The post-World War II German government has apologized and paid reparations to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust\u2014but not to their descendants. French president Francois Hollande has acknowledged the suffering caused by the Algerian war, but did not formally apologize. Nor did UK Prime Minister Tony Blair fully apologize for British participation in the slave trade. Instead, he expressed \u201cdeep sorrow.\u201d<\/a> The Belgian government apologized for its complicity in the death of President Patrice Lumumba of Congo. In 2015, Japan reached a settlement with South Korea in which the Prime Minister formally apologized for the Japanese army\u2019s use of Korean \u201ccomfort women\u201d during World War II. Japan agreed to pay $9.5 million to the women who have survived.<\/a> However, in the case of Namibia, after a century, there are no survivors, only descendants, so German authorities are unsure about what they might pay and to whom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is difficult to know how to acknowledge past atrocities, especially those that happened long ago. Yet the wounds continue, right up to the present time, and not just in Africa. The potato famine in Ireland and the highland clearances in Scotland still resonate today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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