Namibia pushes for German reparations on first Genocide Remembrance Day | DW News

Nambia has commemorated the country's first annual Genocide Remembrance Day, with the president reiterating her call for Germany to pay reparations. May 28 was chosen for the national holiday - the day in 1907 when German officials ordered the closure of concentration camps in Namibia following international criticism. Over a four-year period tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people were massacred by colonial-era German troops. Some were beheaded, with their skulls sent to Berlin for what the Germans called scientific research; the aim of those racist studies was to prove the superiority of white people. Germany's actions in Namibia are regarded as the first genocide of the twentieth century. We spoke to journalist Jemima Beukes.

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