First regional Genocide Remembrance Day commemorations planned

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2026-05-20

SWAKOPMUND, 29 March 2014 - The lives of OvaHerero/OvaMbanderu and Nama people who perished during the 1904-1908 genocide were commemorated at Swakopmund in the Erongo Region on Saturday. Here OvaHerero Paramount Chief Kuaima Riruako and a number of OvaHerero/OvaMbanderu and Nama community members at a memorial stone erected in honour of the deceased at the old Swakopmund cemetery. (Photo by: Joseph Nekaya) NAMPA

SWAKOPMUND, 20 MAY (NAMPA) – The Governor of the Erongo Region, Natalia |Goagoses has called on residents, traditional leaders and civil society organisations to attend the region’s first official commemoration of the Genocide Remembrance Day scheduled for 28 May.
The event which is to take place at the Swakopmund Memorial Park gravesite historically known as the Swakopmund Genocide Cemetery, follows a Cabinet decision declaring 28 May as an annu...

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