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t.w. . monument to namibia in southern africa there's these words to preserve the colony against with a rare uprising with god for emperor and empire glory be to those who are loyal unto death. for 30 years german colonial rulers governed over the peoples of namibia the shadow of this foreign rule is long and the stories are on forgotten. did you ever hear the story told by the alice of the village at the 5. stories about the battles of the old. cure all week stories from the war games going on the innocent. being the onto of the system was born for us.

well i think the art of resistance in the media march 2018 at the march of genocide in the millions recalled the slaughter that the german colonial troops carried out against the ancestors apartheid oh and nama. they were colonial german army uniforms it's a dark chapter in history that germany prefers to forget in namibia it's a history that burdens people to this day. and. the picturesque town of swap more and maybe as atlanta coast. in front of the town hall stands the marine memorial which commemorates the german soldiers who brutally oppressed an uprising by the people of namibia more than 100 years ago. and outreach says city councillor copy introduced

a motion for the monuments removal. commission but with germany that's. been destroyed it. does me. in my motion i requested to. take it to the miss you so that we can put. forth for this going to get independence is what we want. a group of activists recently splashed blood red paint on the memorial. day you know a number of people have gathered for a protest. the statue is a disgrace a monument to colonial and racial oppression. in their way the german people are outraged. that's their way that this dutch. nation because they don't recognize what they did and still we are having the blood of their blood.

namibia's colonial past is more visible and than anywhere else in the country. with its lighthouse and cafes the town is more reminiscent of a german seaside resort than a provincial capital in southern africa. lose a scenic spotless charm us walk up and wrongs of tourists to this day the town is still dominated by whites about 2000 people live in the center of. some of them are descendants of the 1st settlers who came here under german colonial rule. just a few kilometers from the center of it lies another world some 60000 people live in one day so many of them in poverty.

every day life here is shaped by unemployment there aren't enough schools or job training opportunities much of the housing is a poor quality. people here struggle with an uncertain future. to the roots of this poverty law and then maybe as colonial past. in them india although where the history with the words and. all of the farms is in the hands of the german people who love the. single cent they store. some of their land also they. will to the u.s. think in germany. well i don't have

a place to go. to go to because whatever i mean there is 7 now as i'm talking. where to this conflict over land began much of southwestern africa's arid in the 19th century the inhabitants were nomadic cattle breeders hunters and gatherers. the largest groups with assad. and had a go they travelled the land in search of fertile soil and water. the lack of water was a shared problem there were no fixed borders the people lived according to the principle my land is where my cattle graze. but conflicts over grazing land and cattle theft were common. the land was too arid to support the ever larger herds. to the vast deserts to find the landscape phenomena and the cholera.

in 829 the german running missionary society sent its 1st missionaries. they took photographs and kept a diary which remains an important historical document. the germans found admissions they named italian noir and talk. to bring the light of civilization to the dark continent they said. the local people were deeply skeptical about the missionaries arrival. in bed to get clear but i guess you don't want. to do just to get away. i guess you don't who got. to decide to go. in the wake of the missionaries the 1st colonial settlers began to arrive most of them from europe. they came in search of land and cattle and in their view the land was

uninhabited. increased competition over resources intensified local conflicts some of which erupted in violence the delicate balance had been disrupted. the white settlers deliberately fueled these conflicts sometimes they sold weapons brandy and promises to one tribe sometimes to another. the land they captured remains the cornerstone of white farm altars in namibia to this day. place the len i am going old country. and those of us whose parents have been driven away from here led to. lend and other properties which today should have been our inheritance. and whose due provision

led to our people being plunged into generational poverty. for more than $100.00 g.s. . the conflict intensified when i took back a merchant from klayman arrived in namibia and 883. ringback he helped to find natural resources such as copper and minerals which he planned to sell in europe at a great profit ringback. i don't know leader this was a man of dubious reputation his tobacco plantations in mexico had failed as had his attempts to establish business operations in west africa now he had his sights set on the bay of bicheno he began negotiations with the local nama people. their negotiations specified english miles but the purchase contract specified german miles 4 and a half times as much land as had been agreed. this fraud accounted for i don't know

that says an enormous estate german emperor villa hunt the 1st issued a writ of protection and on august 7th 1904 the imperial flag was raised over than a 1000000 coast. i grew up aquino was renamed leader of its base. this was just the beginning soon the german protectorate encompassed one and a half times as much land as germany itself. like elsewhere in europe the population of germany was growing rapidly as was the demand for food. europe was bursting at the seams and increasingly set its sights on overseas colonies the newly founded german empire was also flexing its muscles in search of raw materials cheap labor and land for colonial settlers. they imagine themselves in africa a vast exotic land of opportunity and adventure the european conquest of africa

began. german chancellor otto from bismarck wanted to act as mediator issuing invitations to what became known as the berlin conference. in late 1904 the competing european states met to negotiate colonization and trade in africa the race for territory what became known as the scramble for africa was underway germany 2 sought to stake its claim for a place in the sun. these conduct of believe me for a very long time. for holiness and we were told the names of the conduct partners openly. the extraordinary skills the diplomatic upness the motivation behind everyone the pacific ocean of africa the good deeds of civilization of africa. the courage of the explorers the self forgetting human reason.

but nobody absolutely nobody pointed to the insult to the disc on that followed as if you were in. france italy and portugal had already seized land in africa european colonial powers began to build trade relations they were soon joined by germany which established colonial settlements in togo cameroon east africa and what they called german south west africa today's namibia. this decision to colonize africa affected the whole africa in its development so africa was left behind african resources were taken away to europe. as a result we developed as poor people people were left behind so there when it's come to it and i mean it was not only a question of taking the sources away from us but it's also a question of eliminating the population of this country so that has

a serious impact on our society. after the berlin conference more and more german settlers began to arrive and then maybe a. bit triggered conflicts among the local people in order to acquire territory. they signed the treaty of protection with the chief or the herero saying they would defend the herero against the number a treaty could also serve their own interests. the legendary nama chief hendrik with boy wrote to chief samuel. i learned of the acumen yourself in teaching and protection. this dry land is only known by 2 names and our land and family. and ease and autonomy. no other captain leader has any

right to force his way home. but you do you captain you have no accept an unethical and heavy handed over to a human supremacy for protection. but my dear captain. do you realize what you have done that will be to you like this which the jackal carried on his back in which burned him nearly to death. the jackal with the sun on his back the traditional namibian fable as a warning against false friends. boy kept a diary and wrote many letters in afrikaans language that was widely used in southern africa at the time today these documents are on the you know world heritage list. hero of the anti colonial resistance portrait adorns the namibian currency.

when hendrik record and chief marrero agreed to make peace german colonial troops should torpor attack the nama community at point cards with the aim of eliminating which point the attack was a brutal massacre countless women and children were killed. would point road and now from whose hands is the blood shed coming the entire world should ask . but the world had little interest and looked away. for the people of namibia the situation grew ever more desperate. forced labor and corporal punishment became the order of the day public executions were commonplace. we do not wish to be beaten. as the last it could be that be also begin

to lead back. to. the fact of their land and the humiliation at the hands of the german colonial troops united the peoples of namibia the herero revoke the letter of protection with the germans a resistance movement was born. someone had it all wrote. our people where all and marked by german measures. was taken away with force. they were frightened most treated. some men were shot like dogs when they refused to give away their women and children our chiefs consulted and determined that the war would not be their words and would we had to go for. war was in the air for the germans this was an insidious insurrection of bloodthirsty savages. for the herero unama it was

a war forced upon them. called for armed struggle. let us be fair to died. give away the fighting rather than by mel treatment. on january 12th 1000 know for the 1st shots were fired officers of the german administration railway stations and shops were attacked and destroyed white farmers were killed their wives and children were spared. on january 21st 1000 or 400 at all wrote. me becoming. weemba. only. i mean by a mic. but. now

we know. oh poor me. the german colonial troops were no match for the hurdle they called for reinforcements from germany. additional military equipment and troops were dispatched and soon some 20000 men landed at. the german emperor installed a new commander at the head. it's very difficult to just cry. how it feels to. the german authorities of the time. actually said down. and in a calculated mina. in a coach related bene. decided to to st somebody who was hand picked to come into

a specific shop. and want came here. and for the 1st time in the history of mankind. said out they did all settle intended in writing. that. i won my troops to go out there. to wipe out. a whole community. from the face. of the earth. in east africa and china tough on torture had already earned himself a reputation as a harsh and merciless soldier his message for the media was. clean it up hang it up shoot it down by destroy the rebellious tribes with streams of blood and streams of money. august 11th 1000 or

4 tens of thousands of had it all people were gathered with their families and their herds at the water birth. there was enough water and food for everyone this was their ancestral land and they plan to defend it and. heard it all remember the fighting that followed as the battle of. general issued his infamous extermination order. they had had 0 are no longer german subjects within the german borders every had a with or without a gun with or without cattle will be shot. i will no longer accept women and children i will drive them back to that people or i will let them be shot at these are my words to the head of people the great general of the mighty german emperor. the head o. understood this was a call to genocide. in the initial battles ahead it all beat back the german troops

. like the colonial troops they were familiar with the climate and the terrain. it wanted to drive the hero into the desert and blocked other escape routes a quote from him says the waterless on my shell complete what the german weapons had become the annihilation of the head that all people. we accompany muddier cut here you took him 1st to the former battlefield for members of the potato people. this is a very important place in our history of genocide. i got emotional touch with this area because i see even now i don't see the bodies of my heroes i feel emotionally that they're here and they

felt here they showed bravery against the strong machinery of germany and no one i mean we are today is called the land of the brave because i want to show determination to receive it gains what was fighting to take away from what these what what what belongs to them. the strategy off the enemy was to circle the place where i could deal with getting water and to an extent also poisoning the water so that they were killed. and this is what happened and that's why these places are very important in our history. you are not alone. with it. for me it's very heavy this. is my 1st time ever since i was born to see. if you will hear the oral

history from all the people that you. realize what happened here. it's it's it's it's it's pain when you feel on behalf of other people pain that you cannot describe. in words. because many people have to face. the mantra chairman to me all the. a moment in a motion mission and everything. my people they had no idea they did not have enough. guys. not to those big. national. but for the left of the our own country is said that all face it. men women and children would be if you all got on here and so on you even pick up things like that. today this land belongs to a white farmer whoever wants to enter it must obtain his permission it's really

really very painful it even. in deep in the media you have to ask for permission for some of the come here well this place should actually belong to us. only about 1200 head of were able to escape including some well. the others were trapped the watering holes have been poisoned by the germans anyone who tried to flee was shot about 85000 people died of hunger and thirst. at the foot of the water bird like fallen german soldiers. they had names dates of birth and death and military honors. the cemetery is supported by the german war graves commission ringback there is no mention of genocide guilt or regret.

ringback a small plaque is hidden at the rear wall of the cemetery that is supposed to recall the fallen hero warriors but it bears no names or other information. we know where we lived where our ancestors are varied we kiss the soil. past those places and they don't belong to us. so it is not something that is forgotten that reality is still there. i'm glad to talk around and i would see the mountain of water back which was our web hours as i buried but we lost it. so you grow up also knowing and my parents would talk grandparents would talk about. once

a situation was before me where congress. after the genocide what was called the necessary labor material became scarce. who would do the work needed to operate the colony the country needed new railway lines to service settlers the military and trade operations including a railway line to do the hoods the work was hard and the weather near the atlantic was cold and stormy and the men and women recruited into forced labor were used to a desert climate thousands died. traces of their graves or preserve all alongside the tracks and again they are nameless the graves were only discovered recently. today you know gates is a small colonial town in the south of namibia fishing and the harbor are the lifeline of the community the buildings were called the towns glory days when money

was earned hand over fist and spent in lavish celebrations. diamond deposits brought the area of free flourish of prosperity it was the only time in which the colony was economically viable for germany. but little bits also has a much darker history. the infamous shark island today it's both a tourist attraction and a memorial. this is where the germans set up a concentration camp in which they imprisoned any native people they deemed troublesome. it was only one of many concentration camps in the country. is retracing her family's roots her great great grandmother was imprisoned here.

little is known about her but hopes to find out more. what was her life like in the camp conditions here were terrible every day brought death to many men women and children. i think most of the time what she would have been doing is just leave in fear you know fear just tara. if she was the only one from the family that was here you don't know if everybody else have survived the alive am i ever going to see them again. i guess i just died here trying to escape because you don't know what lies ahead from here.

more than half of the people imprisoned here perish. the strong and healthy were sold to white farmers 20th century slave trade women in the camp were forced to clean the skulls of the beheaded using shards of glass. skulls were packed in boxes and sent to the shall go to hospital in berlin for research purposes. this research would evolve into the racial science that flourished under the nazi regime. some of the we. men had to clean the heads off you know the men and people that were beheaded you know could have been a brother could have been an uncle could have been you know somebody who was just here you have to clean them. the sexual assaults committed by the german soldiers are also part of this dark history. the whole family from both

sides have german glad. my grandmother says and told me that there was a german soldiers around there was a captain who then would call for her demand for her to come to the barracks i think the way they used to live so what my grandmother's sister told me is that then they would put her jacket on her and hat and then they would say they would drag her as if she's drunk because that both german soldiers would hold her own you know on both sides like this so they shoot so when they're walking into the gates maybe it's simpler than other drugs soldier and they would take her to the captain's quarters. and oh. you know most of the rapes were never officially documented but their impact has reverberated down the generations. you know.

one of the things is the whole psychological effect this kind of they've been all these atrocities head on on on our people it seems as if somehow someway might people stop the right way of living. because somehow in the past this whole thing was killed. by the way with. genocide. you know. so our dignity. human being being was really really. seriously. after the battle of water birth the german colonial society proclaimed. nothing but the memory of the former independence of the heroin shall remain. the imperial colonial

office decided to confiscate the assets of native peoples black africans were prohibited from purchasing land and what they already owned was annexed and given away. after their victory the colonial authorities introduced regulations to limit freedom of movement among the local population. anyone who wished to leave their assigned home had to apply to the german colonial administration. from the age of 7 native people were made to wear a metal identification tag identification number and the persons ethnic group. police stations cropped up around the country and the authorities to monitor and control the native peoples every movement. the native people had lost everything their land their herds much of their families

the community. they were forced to work as slaves for the new masters the colony must finally be made economically viable came the orders from berlin the claim was that this would educate the negro to work. here above the world is full with plenty of hardships and difficulties everywhere. god has disappeared i don't hear anything about him where he might be come up when he is in kind of a man was being encircled has to cry. slavery concentration camps public executions all in full view of the eyes of the world a few years later the 1st world war began. in the may be the german colonial forces were vanquished by the english from south africa 1915. after

germany was defeated in the 1st world war the treaty of versailles stipulated that it had to surrender its colonies. the administration of no maybe up perhaps to south africa. the german colonial troops left the country passing through a new to its base. but the german settlers remained on their farms and they kept their minds on all of their possessions the english had no interest in taking control of german farms and the local people were not asked what they wanted. in the 1930 s. the poisonous national socialist ideology spread from germany to southern africa many german settlers hope to regain the lost colony. in southwestern africa heil hitler became a common greeting. germany was dreaming of world conquest and many believe that maybe i would also become german again.

nationalism and racism also took ever deeper root in south africa where daniel milan was elected as prime minister in 1988. promised to turn southern africa into a white man's land. apartheid was introduced in south africa and in namibia discrimination and mistreatment of black africans became part of state policy the silent war was now under. people were separated according to race the city's became white as did the beaches shops and parks black africans were relegated to townships south africa was perfecting the racism but germans had started. in the 1960 s. black africans began to mobilize they founded south west africa people's organisation for swappable. and.

its 1st leader was the anti-apartheid activist samuel who would later become the 1st president of namibia swappable fought for independence from south africa and against oppression and the theft of their land many civilians joined the resistance the war of independence was long and claimed many lives. in 1990 swapo defeated the south african military swapo leader sam new drama returned from exile he spent 30 years abroad mainly in tanzania and then called up . the 1st free elections took place sparking fresh hope the old and been told it was renamed independence avenue. maybe i was the

last african country to gain independence. maybe i now had to forge a new path the relationship between the now independent namibia and germany the former colonial power had to be reinvented. questions of guilt. and responsibility took on renewed importance the german government decided that monetary compensation would be the way to atone for the past. germany began to provide namibia with development aid more than to any other country but germany didn't acknowledge the genocide in its former colony or issue an official apology. the signs of colonial rule remained ever present like at these nameless graves in a cemetery and. the people of namibia what it recognition of their suffering and

acknowledgement of the lasting wounds of the colonial past. in 2011 representatives of the hoodie and nama people went to berlin to reclaim some of the remains that had been sent from the concentration camps nearly a century before. a joint ceremony was planned at the shot a hospital where many of the skull still were but all did not go as smoothly as hoped. german government officials were reluctant to receive the emissaries from namibia the delegation was told that the skulls were from head to toe and number of people who had died in namibia. the cause of death and the genocide remained unmentioned. the namibian delegation had hoped for an apology just as the german government had

demanded for turkey with respect to the genocide against the armenians. oh yes they must apologise they must support us they must acknowledge what they need to happen or just not to apologize there in germany to stand there is understand and i want to just they have to come to the country demand maybe a. and coming up to their apologize he inserted. in front of the people. in 2015 lynn appeared to change course the german government finally acknowledged its historical responsibility for the genocide what this market a new chapter in relations between germany and the maybe a. stock akin to the german on the stock of knowledge is the heavy burden of the german colonial troops incurred for crimes against the head nama and son peoples the war of extermination and then maybe a between 10041008 was

a war crime and genocide the german stock therefore emphasizes germany's continuing responsibility for the future of namibia i mean it's. germany had finally acknowledged the genocide but what would be the result how would berlin address its responsibility i hope question poland's was appointed chief negotiator but talks were held only with the namibian government. descendants of the head oh and nama victims were not invited to the negotiating table. that had it all and now about representatives waited 2 years but negotiations stalled in 2017 they went to court in new york filing a class action lawsuit against germany the german government repeatedly failed to appear for the hearings ignoring the demands of the nama and headed old people. the march of genocide has come to the cemetery of a point for the head owen nama the past is not over they pay their respects to their ancestors and remember their wounds the government negotiations are still

underway. the victims have a clear demand germany must acknowledge the genocide apologize and make reparations payments will push poland's responded. as you heard there will be no personal monetary compensation because these are the great great grandchildren of the victims germany only paid compensation to immediately tombs after the 2nd world war people who had suffered directly. so who decides who has suffered directly and who has not. in the center of there is a monument called the genocide statue. it recalls the suffering experienced part of the german colonial occupation and calls upon the various groups to find new ways

to deal with the past. we were countries who continue with our demise and deal in germany and there will be a generation that is sensible and would understand that this what has happened in the past should be corrected and it will be corrected when the 2 people who are talk to one another and agree to a. solution to this problem. germany came to us as a chapter and we want to clean that up to come with a new generation and you shipped off to the open and then progress in the whole and be part of the world. if you liberty. i wanted to. come off it go. if you

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