Namibia has held its first Genocide Remembrance Day to commemorate tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people killed by German colonisers in the early 1900s, in what is widely considered the first ...

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NAMIBIA has held its first ever Remembrance Day for a horrific colonial genocide committed Germany in the 1900s. Between 1904 ...

Namibia this week will hold its first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century, the government ...

Namibia has honoured the victims of the German genocide in their country, as politicians and affected communities voice fresh ...

Skulls of Ovaherero and Nama people are displayed during a service attended by representatives of the tribes from Namibia in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011.

WINDHOEK, Namibia — Namibia ... to wipe out the entire tribe. They say that the majority of the Herero people, about 65,000, were killed as were at least 10,000 Nama. Symbolic candles were ...

NAMIBIA marked the mass killings of indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day on Wednesday.

FILE - Skulls of people from the Ovaherero and Nama tribes, which were taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments, are returned to Namibian tribal leaders ...