Windhoek, May 26, 2025 (AFP) - Namibia to hold first commemoration of German genocide

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2025-05-26

Namibia will on Wednesday 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 said. Colonial-era German troops massacred tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people who rebelled against their rule in the southern African country between 1904 and 1908. The Genocide Remembrance Day will be celebrated in the gardens of......

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