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when others don't we come no matter where it takes a fear for my i am power and passion. we tell your story. we are your voice. news, your net. out here. the in may 2021. the german government acknowledged responsibility for colonial era genocide against the maybe as harrow and them of peoples over 100 years ago. but activists have long campaigns, the reparations say the compensation of it doesn't truly reflect the appalling suffering of the thousands who died. we've been to find out why i

ah, you see on the background over here thus did nami desert, the sand will come and bury everything. but for some reason, the sand, the dunes refused to bury these people because the spirit a strong and they won this story to baton. when this woke up, one cemetery in my background is that people will died in the concentration camp in the desert and across namibia between 9 of 4 and 19

o. 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 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, the closet duration, causeway. really? that's why almost them lot of 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, the co hurry mo,

spent most of his adult life fighting for international acknowledgement of the genocide and restitution for the descendants of the victims adjourned. destructo based on the stories that i recall. my grandmother told me, and then when i started as an adult, i started learning more and learning ball and ever since i've never breasted finally this, you, the activism of people like shifter appears to have paid off in may. the german foreign minister hika mark made a ground breaking announcement to the city it besides the oil to decide mister yet of it, sir. at st. us let's to give isn't, and folk, ahmad, if it can on stem, it off to ones by his dollars and farm for them. and him listed is a historical event of morales and for and for deutsch lance weird in vienna, me bow and did not come. the oprah winfrey gable 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 shifter and many other hero agreement is 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 policeman march, but quite a very important march because it is raising a number of issues. rejecting the 1100000000. 1 term that the germans was to pay us the very same amount of money that the germans have already given to not have used for the last 31 years. is the same on the under b, us shift as travel from the united states, where he now lives to campaign against the agreement. he visits namibia 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 ancestors were kept and were forced to work a slave labor. my grandmother used to tell me, told me about the generous hey it began in luncheon, or for up to the rear over nama rebelled against german colonists were aggressively seizing their land. in response, the head of the military administration. what was thin, german, south, west africa? general lots of on trotter should in 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 in the disposition of their land. a disposition of their 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's why jeff does documenting a rarer opposition to the agreement. oh, he travels from the capital ventura to oak, a hunter to meet the acting chief of the rear of the heroes were sent to this remote areas to serve as a us of labor poor for the. busy white community, so while industrial industrial is the present in the past, it's hard to distinguish b as in particularly in these areas. oh jeff, to meets the queer, a cool. currently, the acting chief of the over herero traditional authority, which represents most to rarer namibia. oh the chief war is official, uniform in honor of the moments that on an good he

a good on his 80 noah was you busy which are agreement. i don't want to go la globin that embody with ya. there were some new blood her when she did a year yet for the wooded oba wrong. him and, and normally wouldn't a he wanted to go home in that. embody it due to a b concordy of duty, and you know, would have to luba well, the 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 who 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. yeah, but i would of there when i would on a level media web later and i wanted. yeah, that it won't, you know, which one, whether the outcome says caputo is that the namibian government has failed 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 e money guy on budget as g. d and dry your he'd only she could buy a new one on india to run a maybe a year. what did you wound rogers you to the with the america? a drug? 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. oh to come when did you get

a little? the woman around fidela, she'd almost all another to let it a man woman for your won't go ganga. the once prosper sererow, having lost the land and a much prized cattle after the genocide, now lived for the most part in abject poverty. shift visits vin vanny curry was one of many, a rarer, struggling to survive a making ready cleaned it than the rang and aim when it was fully cooling. it is equal, correct foot, and are you good out eating? man? i got the sooner cobra to love you. good. another to do full always. yeah. yes. it's under now and when glad will i let you know my flir. nadia was colony that faded away. oh, there were we know you would only she knew me. we will own will be will i know you may she may have been as you know it, india cabinets, you know,

when i hear with again douglas global myself could escalate be deemed any got been i seen that yet. i got a benet bay maddie to their dinner garden, as you know, you know when you to one and or did of amendable maddie ramble. did the moment been work what a guy lumber given that randall that who that do not understand. what you do is you, have you go moral with nicki, then global. i'm getting ready to he's and it's not only been a vain his generation, 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 lascola query moore mother by them. that's what been durable. that vehicle had up on that to i've been drop on dental lead in the mac, angelito better, my god, i was calling me and my new school year. he is too much is too emotional for me

and what's going to happen them taking child's life far away and the kids and that means the kids have to work another 2 hours to school and the kids have nothing to eat. the government has abandoned 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 government, 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. the, all the cattle 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. can you are you still is a hand with getting to the settlement a year. right. why is that a genocide woman lawrence tells us to make ends meet as girlfriend must sell these genocide dolls, getting to german tourists before they can? i say i was more for in the question, what is it the nurse concentration come the concentration? yeah. 2 teenagers, you know, 498. so what do you think about the germans today? celebrity they have to pay for the detroit. grandma

grandparent was that one is the one that take long in our life. 10 man is the is the only the thing that can make changes again by our linbeck gonna bel, any measure then we settle their families. was it? yeah, we live in a solution can was there like any, he is not as good 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 is unacceptable. 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, however, managed to speak to professor faneuil ca, palmer, one of number, be as chief negotiators. he himself is a rarer my great grandmother was 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 shared away from even mentioning the word genocide. but the, the bigger challenge was her own, the current to which has remained very key issue to the point to the deter almost the route. then no,

there is no difference to the word depression, while germany, so logic to the term, reparations negotiations in our view have been for political and moral reasons. there are, this was not a legal question. we avoided illegal speech to avoid this kind of 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 it? a very heavy debate later on, they came around and said to that, okay, if we agree to pay the partition, then we will do our we with development it and we said, no, those are good. 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 where war crimes during world war 2 will committed in italy, increase in poland and in other eastern european societies. we are local courts there, ruled that the german government should pay reparations to the descendants. germany refused to accept liability for such claims. but says melba, if reparations were paid to namibia, that might sit 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 seemingly off the table, what about the rear? 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 white, namibian farmers who possess vast tracts of it. shift visits, hurt, vol, bling, a german namibian, who speaks fluent to rare a. he owns a 15000 hectic farm and the water burge region, which used to be inhabited by the rarer until the germans began the campaign of annihilation against them in 19 o. 4 miguel. yeah, go got 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 boy area communities and 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, vol bling, like other white german namibian farmers in the region denied that this land used

to belong to the a rarer this land was a 100 years before that. it was it 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 just buying land and giving it, 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 tomorrow, 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. how they lost many of their land. they lost almost all the kettle, and i most have, let's say half of the population yet is vol bling. he doesn't believe the mass murder of herrera was sanctioned by the government of the time. if they would have been the initial thought of eradicating a certain tribe. but that was not an intention and the relationship to the holocaust is, is for me it is far fetched. but 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 they used to call historians, florida. the desk and my great grandmother was at this site. and likely she, later when the people that had complaining the she was transferred to sort of mood . but most 0 nama were held here, didn't survive. a lot of lot of people. perry's death and starvation was what killed a lot of people over here. and when they'd die, their body were thrown in the sea. and those who wouldn't work to death was subjected to the horrors in this is where they did their medical experiment on the now my inherit people medical in swimming 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 alice, 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 well as 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 diseases such a smallpox, 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 the seas, prisoners back to germany. aiming to scientifically prove the rational inferiority of africans, so essence of human remains, scalds skeletons. and so on, where transported back to the german empire. those human remains

awe 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 in humane practices. but she genesis dr. eugene fisher. he and other colonial officials later became prominent leading figures in the race ideology of nazi germany, businesses our shores. but unlike germany's ash fits this no official recognition of shock islands of the crimes which were perpetrated here, there is no mention about the head arrows at all. it's not a can being said, so we'll show a lot of germans. they come here and camp and the movie as they come in 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, will be willing to apologize probably just the way or sit in the germany one day will pay reparation. even though they're saying we are going to give you like a, just a or development and it's just, he's will happen. who harold, people are resilient. people from what we have gone through, what my people have gone through from jenna said disposition concentrated income. and for my father and my great bright grand paris to regain i'm new, to reconstitute themself and send me to school. and they walk straight

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