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into democracy, but there is a possibility for the country to come out of at current prices through dialect. i'm consensus. but many protesters here say that they want to see the military be removed from powers and from politics. and with it, that is the only way forward to remove saddam out of its current crisis. they say they will be organizing more protests in the coming days, despite the amount of fear that has been fired on sunday. and in previous protests, despite the fact that more than 45 protests have been killed and over, 200 have been injured. people here on the street that they will continue to protest, there will continue to voice their demand for our democracy and for civilian rule demand that they thought it through years ago. and they say they will not stop demanding for until they see it achieved. ah, the headlines on al jazeera, as we've been hearing left, as gabriel borage has one chillies, presidential election. his address hundreds of thousands of people are gathered in
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santiago, a 35 year old rose to prominence during student protests against the government. but it's now promising to be a leader for all children's l food i t live. the future of children needs everyone . and i hope that we have the maturity to count on their ideas. and as for the particular differences we have with jose antonio cast, i hope we can build bridges because this is what the country needs right now. well, bridge his right wing opponent was jose antonio cast and he urged his supporters to put political differences aside. he lost by 5 percent, which was the surprise margin of defeat. analysts were expecting a much tighter race up to council came out on top and the 1st round last month congratulated birch and struck a conciliatory tone. or you via the him for the lady. but today is a day of joy for burridge and i celebrate his success. and i will be there doing what i said i would do for the betterment of children. and we will always be
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a unified country study. our promise is not just a passing one. it is one for our customs and our tradition. you saw the news in hundreds of thousands of protest as of march to the presidential palace in khartoum in sedan, demanding the military stay out of the country's transition towards democracy. security both beside t against them after attempting to block bridges, demonstrated marking 3 years since the start of the revolution that ended former president domino. she is 30 year old. the death toll from type in ryan, the philippines is now up at 208. at least and that death toll is expected to rise . rescue team is still searching for missing people in flooded areas following fridays, storm, as well. 18000 soldiers of now joined rescue workers trying to reach remote areas. 300000 filipinos were forced from their homes by the super ty, thing there you are up to date with the headlines are investigative documentary
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program. people in power is next. the in may 2021. the german government acknowledged responsibility for colonial era genocide against the maybe as herrera and them of peoples over 100 years ago. that activists have long campaigns. reparations say, the compensation on offer doesn't truly reflect the appalling suffering of the thousands who died. we've been to find out why i
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ah, you see on the background over here, thus did nami, dest, it, the sand will come and bury everything. but for some reason, the sand, the dunes refused to bury these people because their spirits are strong and they want this story to baton. when this will go, one cemetery in my background is the people will died in the concentration camp in the desert and across namibia between 9 to 949 to know, 8 german colonial forces displaced and killed up to 80 percent of the around tribe, some $80000.00 people, other ethnic groups like the nama and the san, also suffered grievously at the hands of the colonists. 10000 nama died,
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half the population, as well as an unknown number of san. ready juan, this was the 1st genocide of the 20th century, but by no means the last. in many ways, imperial, germany's treatment of the indigenous people of namibia foreshadowed the barbarity of the nazi holocaust against the jews and other groups. during world war 2, there was a duration castaway. really, that's why almost a lot of our people perish from malnutrition. and a lot of them were forced to work on the railway. and they basically worked them to death, rarer activists. jeff to karima, to spend most of his adult life fighting for international acknowledgement of the genocide and restitution for the descendants of the victims adjourned district go based on the stories that i recall. my grandmother told me, and then when i started as an adult, as i did learning more and learning ball and ever since i have never rested.
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finally this year, the activism of people like shifter appears to have paid off in may. the german foreign minister hika moscow, made a groundbreaking announcement to the city it siphoned. hoyt, the desire mr. yet of it, sir. at us let's to give isn't, and folk, ahmad, if it can on stem it off to ones that i his dollars and for i'm for them. and him listed is a historical event of morales and fine thought of deutsche lance weird and vienna me bow and did not come. the oprah winfrey gave on bitten a few months later, namibian germany announced a draft agreement which say both sides will bring closure to this dark chapter of history. if it goes ahead, germany will formally apologize to namibia and pay 1100000000 euros in compensation spread over 30 years. but for jeff to many other hero agreement is
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deeply problematic. in september, when the bill was presented to the namibian parliament, protest has travelled from near and far to oppose it. wow, it's a busy march, but quite a very important march because it is raising a number of issues. rejecting the 1100000000 of quantum that the germans was to pay us the very same amount of money that the germans have already given to not be until the last 31 years is the same. and they want to pay us shift as travel from the united states, where he now lives to campaign against the agreement. he visits nearby as parliament, the site of the protest. it was built using forced labor of captured herrera with norma genocide survivors. this is a very painful moment for me. ah, standing on this ground as simply because this area there used to be a concentration camps where our and sisters were kept and were forced to work the
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slave labor. my grandmother used to tell me, told me about the genocide. it began in launching a full up to the rear over nama rebelled against german colonists were aggressively seizing the land. in response, the head of the military administration. what was thin, german, south, west africa? general lots of on trotter should an order to his troops, to exterminate all herrera men, women, and children after defeating the herrera. militarily, the germans heard the survivors eastwood into the indisputable ma hecky days. it's intent to kill them through hunger and thirst. the flight to the east and how our people perish. and the disposition of their land. a disposition of their
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cattle and all those in the experience in the concentration camps. my grandmother's mother were captured by the germans and said to luther, it's a chug island in consideration comed and from there they work. a slave ray, but some of them died and the fuse it was survived. ah, basically that's where i am here today. but his grandfather's mother wasn't so lucky, my great grandmother was too old and tired to walk and she was left behind. they left her under 3 to die. and that's actually the story that really spoke. my interest is like how she died. a death without dignity knowledgeable that it almost every rare a person has a story like this to tell you that. that's why jeff does documenting a rarer opposition to the agreement. he travels from the capital ventura to oak hunter, to meet the acting chief of the rear of the heroes were sent to these remote areas
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to serve as a us of labor poor for the white community. so while industrial industrial is the present in the fast, it's hard to distinguish b as in particularly in these areas. oh, jeff, to mix v queer capua, currently the acting chief of the over herero traditional authority, which represents most rarer in namibia. now the chief war is official, uniform in honor of the moments that are a new dig. yay! of good on his 80, noah was visual which are on agreement. i don't have to go la globin that embody with yeah it there are some new laptop when you do a year. yeah. for the wooded oba wrong human. that normally wouldn't a he wanted to go home and that embody it, do a blur. duty and, you know,
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we have that blue ha agreement and you want to move a young put us to repress collins, germany's chief negotiator. he says that under international law, such negotiations can only take place between states. i not individual groups or there are many groups. so say unfortunately were been not part of the negotiations . and if i would start to count these groups, i come easily about 101520 groups who are complaining not to have been included. but august kapoor, after the holocaust, germany didn't only negotiate with the state of israel. it also negotiated directly with many jewish groups on and others yelp. but i don't know when i would on a level media web lighter and i went to the other one, you know, which one mother the outcome says caputo is that the namibian government has failed
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to secure direct compensation for the rarer instead the $1100000000.00 euros, which germany plans to pay will be administered by the namibian government. and the im when you go on bad as g. d and dry your heat on me, she called me and one on india. you were on a maybe a year. what did you wound rogers you today with the america? i do. i've been in it and you know women, it not always all the month long now, but they don't ye. even on the 90 pilgrim run, i really none below you and i made it in the name of to come. when did you get a little the woman around fidela. she'd almost all another to let it a man woman. when you want to walk under the once prosperous sererow, having lost the land and a much prized cattle off to the genocide, now live for the most part in abject poverty. shift visits vin vanny curry was
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one of many, a rarer, struggling to survive a making, ready cleaned it than drank a name when it was calling. cooling is equal, correct? what and out of your good out. even, man, i got this, you know, how would i julia good. and that i did do full always. yes. yes. it from the now i'm went lady. well i need to know metal or not yet coline that faded away. oh there were, we know you would only seen any we will own will of if will. i know you may. she may have been, as you know, it, india burnett, sienna, my name is again, douglas global. my. so could you call me at the demon? any i've been, i seen that yet. i got a bna bay, maddie to their dinner garden, as you know, she knowing how to run an audit avoidable maddie mumble did the moment been what, what of the lumber given at randall that you do not understand? what you do is you don't have you go wrong with nicki, then global. i'm getting ready to heat and it's not only been a vans generation,
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her suffering, barring some kind of intervention. her children are unlikely to escape the cycle of poverty and making life even harder. the government has recently decreed. davis moved to an even more remote location. landed i to i got iowa, moscow liquidity mother let them know that what been durable that vehicle that up on that should have been dropped on dental lead in the mac, angelina betty mac. i was calling me and by your school, your heat is too much is too emotional for me and was going up in them taking child's leg far away in the kids. and that means the kids have to work another 2 hours to school and the kids have nothing to eat. the government hasn't been in them. and it's not just in the villages the poverty amongst herrera was rife. it's the same and urban areas. jeff travels to swap
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government, a picturesque coastal town, popular with german tourists, but on the outskirts of the town where people live in bleak, informal settlements. jeff, to mince lawrence and dury, move from the country side to the city where, you know, search of a better life. he has been here for 9 years now at this place. and this is a way his lives. no electricity, no running water or the kettle died of drought. and so there is no work. so the best they can come is come here. tried to force some food from when the city, torrance, and fights shifter into his shack. 20 can are you still is a hand with respect
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to the settlement? the 2nd, if it, when you're rich. can i say, why is that a genocide woman lawrence tells us to make ends meet chenise girlfriend must sell these genocide dolls, eating to german tourists before they can i say and i agree with what it is. concentration come to lose concentration. yeah. to clean and use, you know, 49 or 8. so what do you think about the germans today? charity they have to pay for the detroit. grandma grandparent was that one is the one that take long in our lifetime. money is the is the only thing that can make changes again by our linbeck in our bow anyways. then we settle their families . roses. yeah, we live in a solution can was there like any he is not or
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a good go as these young people over here, you see running industries over here. they will have nothing to lose but to demand their land back. and that's exactly what's going to happen. this situation is unacceptable, and it's acceptable. the sense of economic and political, marginalization among the rarer, has heightened the mistrust of swapper, the ruling party in namibia since 1990. it's amplified the feeling that the government must handle the genocide negotiations with germany. we tried to put us to the namibian government, but despite numerous requests, no government official granted us an interview. we did, i ever managed to speak to professor faneuil could palmer one of number be as chief negotiators. he himself is a rarer my great grandmother was
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a brother of samuel model. let do a little people during the war of colonial resistance. the agreement to palmer told us was the best the namibian government could achieve. given germany's tough negotiating tactics. they have always shade away from even mentioning the word genocide. but i did the bigger challenge, who was her own, the quantum, which has to be maint, a very key issue to the point that he to almost deranged. then there is no difference to the word reparation. wise, germany thought allergic to the time, reparations negotiations in our view have been for political and moral reasons. they are, this was not a legal question. we avoided illegal speech to avoid this kind of
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misunderstanding. and reparation is illegal term. and therefore, we spoke about healing the wounds, which means in a sense, probably the same but not in a legal term, but says palmer, the negotiations were less about healing wounds than they were about avoiding legal liability. what was a very heavy debate later on, they came around and said that, okay, if we agree to pay the parish it, then we will do our we with development it and we said no, those are 2 different things for their victim. community is good reason why germany's keen to avoid any payments being labeled as reparations says, heading melba and m a. be an academic, an activist. there were war crimes during world war 2 committed in italy, increase in poland. and in other eastern european societies,
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we are local courts there, ruled that the german government should pay reparations to the descendants. germany's refused to accept liability for such claims. but says melba, if reparations were paid to namibia, that might sid a legal precedent. then these rulings would be seen in another light, and then it would become a really expensive for germany. so with direct reparation seeming the off the table, what about the rare a demand that i should get the land or at least some of it returned to them. but any discussion about the return of land must involve its current owners. mostly what number b and farmers who possess vast tracts of it. gift visits, heard vall, billing a german namibian who speaks fluent to rarer, got up with you. he owns a 15000 hectic farm and the water burge region,
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which used to be inhabited by the rarer until the germans began the campaign of annihilation against them in 19 o form is julia gordon. my great great grandfather came here in 19 o 7, which was just after the german air rule and farming here and living in close relationship with the wire communities bordering to all offends. and it's very much a farming related. but of course, it brings together our different cultures as well. but when it comes to addressing the past, warbling like other white german namibian farmers in the region denied that this land used to belong to the rarer this land was a 100 years before that it was ed, not inhabited by wire, is speaking, people to the knowledge i, i do have well touring the farm just to raises the land issue. i don't think it
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just buying land and given a given it back will, will improve the situation dramatically. i, i doubt that when i think we have to develop the area, we have to develop the people in investing in a better to morrow, like education and interest structure, schools and hospitals. that people really feel that their life is improving. shift to also wants to know if they can reach a common understanding about the past. do you deny that there was a generous ed or you don't deny it? i mean, you, i, i don't question the harm which was done to, oh, i had a people now. they lost many of their land. they lost almost all the kettle and i lost half. let's say half of the population yet is vol bling. he doesn't believe the mass murder of berrera was sanctioned by the government of the time. if there would have been the initial thought of eradicating a certain tribe,
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but there was not an intention and the relationship to the holocaust is, is for me it is far fetched. shift is next visit, illustrates that for many a rarer historical links between the genocide and the holocaust on far fetched at all. he travels to shock island, which used to be a notorious concentration camp guerrero. nama who survived death in the desert approach. yeah, and used to slave labor. this said is where our ancestors were kept. and the germans said up, this goes the duration chem and the use call historians, florida. the desk him my great grandmother was at this site and likely she later when the people that had complaining the she was frustrated, the sort of mood. but most theory ro nama we held here,
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didn't survive. a lot of lot of people. perry's death and starvation was what killed a lot of people over here in the when they die, their body were thrown in the sea and those who went worked to death was subjected to the horrors. and this is where they did their medical experiment on the now my unhealthy medical exam based on my grandmother, they were fascinated with her. some of them of her pupil, we have like a black. the gums are like dahlgren palace, so there was great that is great that until it bleeds to find out what is the cause of that? i don't know what was the whole point, but the bottom line is this was their biggest fear was to go to that medical center. they knew that when you go there, you are not going to be alone. in that medical center, prisoners were subjected to many forms of systematic abuse. but being injected with
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diseases such a small pox, typhus, and tuberculosis, of poisons like arsenic. they were also used as human material for you genic research. in order to conduct the pseudo scientific research, german doctor sent the skulls of deceased prisoners back to germany. aiming to scientifically prove the racial inferiority of africans. so essence of human remains, scalds skeletons, and so on, where transported back to the german empire, those human remains, ah, in sherman basements of museums of hospitals, and only in 2011, i think, for the 1st time, a few of them were returned to namibia. the man overseeing these inhumane practices. but she genesis dr. eugene fisher. he and other colonial officials
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later became prominent leading figures in the race ideology of nazi germany, businesses our shores. but unlike at germany's ash fits this no official recognition of shock island of the crimes which were perpetrated here. there is no mention about the head arrows at all. it's not can been said, so i'm sure a lot of germans, they come here and camp and maybe as they come and camp as if this is just a normal place to where to now the rarer and his struggles for justice and reparations. what do you say to german americans? he said there wasn't a genocide here. that's not fair. what do i say to them? nothing. we are going to get our land back and how we're going to take it. i don't know. but we, our i'm said in just the way i was said in that one did gemini,
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will be willing to apologize probably just the way or sit in the germany one day will pay reparation. even though they are saying we are going to give you like a, just the or development in it just this will happen. who harold, people are resilient. people from what we have gone through, what met, people have gone through from jenna said disposition concentrates income and for my father and my great grandparents to regain i'm to reconstitute themself and send me to school and they walk straight. they do more with their head down. and so that's the way i'm going to work. i'll walk straight as my head up. ah.
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