Take Responsibility For Crimes Committed During Colonial Rule, UN... allafrica: Namibia
The seven UN delegates published their correspondence with both countries and pushed Germany to accept responsibility for all of its colonial crimes in Namibia, including mass murder, according to the
. They also stated that it was improper for the Herero and Nama to have been indirectly involved in negotiations through an advisory council. The recommended that Germany compensate the Herero and Nama directly rather than via the Namibian government., has been on determining the facts surrounding any violations of international law. They are not being compensated by the UN Human Rights Council, which gave them the positions in their capacity as impartial experts.
This centres around the brutal murder of tens of thousands of Herero and Nama. In the early 1900s, colonial troops killed tens of thousands of protesting Nama and Herero in the Omaheke desert region, in what was then known as German South West Africa.approached the German government on the 1904 to 1908 genocide agreement that is currently on the table between Namibia and Germany. Their petition regarding the genocide agreement discussed in May, 2021 calls on the new German government, now led by chancellor Olaf Scholz, to dismantle the proposed agreement and to negotiate with the surviving descendants of the Herero and Nama genocide victims directly while the Namibian government facilitates the process.
In June 2021, Germany recognised for the first time that it committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial rule more than a century ago and promised financial support worth more than one billion euros to fund infrastructure projects in the southern African country. The traditional leaders feel thatTagged:
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