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Germany accepts responsibility for the genocide in Namibia, but has it done enough to correct the wrongs of the past?
In May this year, the German government formally accepted responsibility for genocide during the colonial era against the Herero and Nama peoples of Namibia more than 100 years ago.
It was the first atrocity of the twentieth century, committed in the name of Imperial Germany between 1904 and 1908, in what was then known as South West Germany in Germany. Thus, many historians now see the Nazi Holocaust foretold in the Second World War.
But activists in Herero and Nama, who have long campaigned for reparations, say the compensation offered does not really reflect the horrendous suffering of thousands of dead – through ethnic cleansing, disease, starvation, imprisonment and torture.
In Namibia: the price of genocide, Filmmakers Naashon Zalk and Hamilton Wende have been investigating why.
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