Namibians losing patience over German slowness to act on genocide claims

[Disir]

Namibians wait for German apology

After tough debate in Germany and abroad, all major parties acknowledged that Berlin should apologize for the genocide in its former colony of "German South West Africa” where tens of thousands of Herero and Nama were killed between 1904 and 1908.

Namibia is still waiting for that apology. There is no mention of it in the current German government's coalition agreement.

Enquiries to the foreign ministry are always met with a standard response. The position papers with the detailed claims out of Namibia and the offer out of Germany are both classified.

Whenever delegates meet, the outcome of the negotiation round remains likewise unclear – no more than a brief media statement follows. Consequently, no one in Germany takes notice of these negotiations.

Critics such as Sommer believe the federal government wants to put this matter on the back burner.
Namibians losing patience over German slowness to act on genocide claims | DW | 09.05.2018

Apologizing is easy. Reparations........not so much.

 

[Ringel05]

I want reparations for what the Normans did to the Saxons....... And what the Saxons did to the Picts and Britons........ And what the Romans did to Europe........ And what the Gauls did to Rome......

 

[indiajo]

Namibians wait for German apology

After tough debate in Germany and abroad, all major parties acknowledged that Berlin should apologize for the genocide in its former colony of "German South West Africa” where tens of thousands of Herero and Nama were killed between 1904 and 1908.

Namibia is still waiting for that apology. There is no mention of it in the current German government's coalition agreement.

Enquiries to the foreign ministry are always met with a standard response. The position papers with the detailed claims out of Namibia and the offer out of Germany are both classified.

Whenever delegates meet, the outcome of the negotiation round remains likewise unclear – no more than a brief media statement follows. Consequently, no one in Germany takes notice of these negotiations.

Critics such as Sommer believe the federal government wants to put this matter on the back burner.
Namibians losing patience over German slowness to act on genocide claims | DW | 09.05.2018

Apologizing is easy. Reparations........not so much.

There was no genocide.
The Hereros were not Namibians. They were nomads from outside, raiding and killing everything and they came to Namibia only after Germans had set up farms there and were a promising object for looting.

It was their mistake to take on the German Schutztruppe (lot of them Namibian Askaris) under Trotha, who simply sent them back into the desert where they came from. By military force, of course.
What did you do to the Comanches, Apatches and so on, who defended actually their own land?