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a look at so many of them look so you don't want to. go. to w. monument to namibia in southern africa bears these words to preserve the colony against a rare uprising with god for emperor and empire glory be to those who are loyal unto death. for 30 years the german colonial rulers governed over the peoples of namibia the shadow of this foreign rule is that all the stories are on forgotten. did you ever hear the story told by the elders of the village at the 5. stories about the battles of the all of them by the. cure a week stories from the war against scotland unison. the. the system

was born for. the art of resistance in the media march 2018 at the march of genocide in the movie and to recall the slaughter that the german colonial troops carried out against the ancestors about 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. in. the picturesque town of swap more and maybe as atlantic coast. in front of the town hall stands the marine memorial which commemorates the german soldiers who brutally oppressed an uprising by the 100 people of namibia more than 100 years ago

. and outreach says city councillors like me suck up be introduced a motion for the monuments removal. 'd to germany that's my opinion of that but. it. does me. in my motion. take it to the miss you so that we can put. forth for this going to get independence so what we want. a group of activists recently splashed blood red paint on the memorial at arrow and now more people have gathered for a protest. the statue is a disgrace a monument to colonial and racial oppression. their way the german people were outraged. that's their way that just. because they don't know what they did and the. we are having

a lot of. namibia's colonial past us more visible in 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. and throngs 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. another world some 60000 people live in. 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 of poor quality. people here struggle with an uncertain future. to the roots of this poverty law and maybe as colonial past. in the media although where with the words and. all of the farms is in the hands of the people that. sent the store. some of the land also. the. will to any man the best thing in germany does come for

lindy well i don't have a place to go. to grow up to because whatever i mean there is 7 now as i'm talking . where did this conflict over land began much of southwestern africa's era in the 19th century the inhabitants were nomadic cattle breeders hunters and gatherers the largest groups were the sonne of omble nama and had a go. they traveled 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 infest deserts to find the landscape the nomination and the cholera. in 829 but german relish missionary society sent its 1st missionaries. they took photographs and kept a diary which remains an important historical document. the germans founded missions they named battalion noir bahman and. to bring the light of civilization to the dark continent they said. local people were deeply skeptical about the missionaries arrival. but when. invited to give. but i guess you don't like to just. need. to go to so long to decide to home. 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 fuelled these conflicts sometimes they sold weapons brandy and promises to one's. sometimes to another. the land they captured remains the cornerstone of white farmer holders in namibia to this day. place the len i am going old country. and those of us who use parents have been driven away from their lent. lend and other properties which today should have been our inheritance. and whose do prevail

led to our people being plunged into generational poverty. for more than $100.00 g.s. . the conflict intensified when i took back on merchant from plame and arrived in namibia and 883. he helped to find natural resources such as copper and minerals which he planned to sell in europe at a great profit. i don't include of it 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 became a he began negotiations with the local number of 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 it's as the norm is a state german emperor villa 100 the 1st issue to rid of protection and on august 7th 1904 the imperial flag was raised over the navy and coast. i grew up aquino was renamed you know its bay. 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 with 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 imagined 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 to talk to stake its claim for a place of massage. these conduct of belief heard me for a very long time. for holiness and we were told the names of the 100 partners who believe. the extraordinary skills the diplomatic happiness the motivation behind everyone the pacific ocean of africa big good deeds of civilization of africa. the

courage of explorers the self for getting humanism. but nobody absolutely nobody pointed to the insult to the disc on that followed us if you will . england 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 and as a result we developed as poor people people were left behind so there when it's come to you and i mean it was not only a question of taking the resources 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 in namibia. they triggered conflicts among the local people in order to acquire territory. they signed a treaty of protection with the chief or the herero saying they would defend the herero against the nama a treaty that also served their own interests. the legendary nama chief hendrik with boy wrote to chief samuel. i learned that you have given yourself into german protection. and this dry land is only known by 2 names and our land and number. and.

in autonomy is reality. no other captain. has any right to force his way home. but you do you captain you have not stepped in another room and have 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 son which the jackal carried on his back and which burned him nearly to death. with the sun on his back the traditional namibian fable as a warning against false friends. boy kept a diary and wrote many letters and afrikaans language that was widely used in southern africa at the time. today these documents are on the you know skull 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 top or attack the nama community at cards with the aim of eliminating which point the attack was a brutal massacre helpless women and children were killed. with by 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. at the last it could be that be also begin to eat back. the effect 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 aunt and mocked by german mentions. was taken away with force. they were fraught to maltreat it. 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 the worse than what we had to go for the 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. had it all called for armed struggle. let us be fair to day to. well 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 1804 someone not at all wrote. back to. me. only. by the city. i mean you know mike i'm with you just you know but.

now we know. that german colonial troops were no match for the hereto 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 describe. how it feels. and not the german authorities of the time. actually said. and in a calculated minute. in a culturally determined. decided to say that somebody who was hand

picked to come into a specific job. and one thought i came here. and for the 1st time in the history of mankind. said out they did not settle intended in writing. that. i wanted my troops to go out there. to wipe out. a whole community. from the face. of the earth. in east africa and china. has already earned himself a reputation as a harsh and merciless soldier his message for the media was. clean it out 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. there was enough water and food for everyone this was their ancestral land and they planned 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.

beheaded oh understood this was a call to genocide. in the initial battles to get 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 head it all into the desert and blocked other escape routes a quote from him says the water shall complete what the german weapons had begun the annihilation of the head that o. people. we a company madea cut your you took him 1st to the former battlefield for members of the people. this is 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 wrong machinery of germany and no one in the media today is called the land of the brave because i want to show determination to the system against what was fighting to take away from what these what what what belongs to them. the study 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 this place is very important in our history. but it. for me. is my 1st time ever. to be here. if you hear the

history from over people in you. realize. here. it's a it's a it's it's it's pain when you feel. pain that you cannot describe even. in words. because my people have to face. the magic chairman. with all the. moment in a motion mission and everything. i think. they did not have enough. gas. not to was a big. question here is. that for the left of the our own country they said that. men women and children if you're going 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 that even. in deep in the media you have to ask for permission for a summit to come well this place should actually belong to us. only about 1200 had it all were able to escape including some well known how do you know 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 berg might fall in german soldiers. they had names ringback 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 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 other information. we know where we lived where our sisters are very weak is the soil when we pass those places and they don't belong to us. so it is not something that is forgotten the reality is that in there. grew up talk around i would see the mountain of water back which was on our web our eyes this is a buried but we lost it. so you grow up also knowing

and my parents would grandparents would talk about. once the situation was before you were. 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 serve the settlers the military and trade operations including a railway line. the work was hard and the weather near the atlantic was cold and stormy the men and women recruited into forced labor were used to a desert climate thousands died. traces of their graves are visible alongside the tracks and again they are nameless the graves were only discovered recently. today you know that as a small colonial town in the south of namibia fishing and the harbor are the

lifeline of the community the buildings were called the town's 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 german 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 where tracing her family's roots are great great grandmother was imprisoned here . little is known about her but jessie day 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 i'd be alive i'm 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.

zain. 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 shelter to hospital in berlin for research purposes. this research would evolve into the racial science that flourished under the nazi regime. some of the were. and had to clean the heads off you know the man 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. the sexual assaults committed by the german soldiers are also part of this dark

history. my whole family from both sides have determined that. my grandmother says they told me that there was german soldiers around and there was a captain who then would call for her or demand for her to come to the barracks i think the way they used to live so what my grandmother sister told me is that then they would put a jacket on her and the hat and then they would see they would they would drag her as if she's drunk because they 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 simpler than other drugs soldier then they would take her to the captain's quarters . then was. most of the rapes were never officially documented but their impact has reverberated down the generations was. you know.

one of the themes is the whole set political if it. this kind of a. all this atrocity hit on people it seems as if somehow someway my people. they're right. because somehow in the past this whole thing was killed. by the way we were part of the genocide. you know. the genocide. 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 head of. 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 and 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. 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 filled with plenty of hardships and difficulties everywhere. livy is in. trouble god has disappeared i don't hear anything about him where he might be come up when he is incredible a man was being encircled has to cry. slavery in concentration camps public executions all in full view of the eyes of the world a few years later the 1st world war began. in namibia 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 past to south africa. the german colonial troops left the country passing through and new to its banks. but the german settlers remained on their farms and they kept their mines and 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 into. 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 underway. people were separated according to race cities became white as did the beaches shops and parks black africans were relegated to townships south africa was perfecting the racism the germans had started. and then in the 1960 s. black africans began to mobilize they founded south west africa people's organisation for swappable.

its 1st leader was the anti-apartheid activist. 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 1900 swapo defeated the south african military swapo leader sam new drama returned from exile he spent 30 years abroad mainly in tanzania and then. the 1st free elections took place sparking fresh hope the old inventory was renamed

independence avenue. namibia was the last african country to gain independence. namibia 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. for signs of colonial rule remained ever present like at these nameless graves in a cemetery and. the people of namibia wanted recognition of their suffering and

acknowledgement of the lasting wounds of the colonial past. in 2011 representatives of the heavier unama 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 shaadi to a hospital where many of the school 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. 'd oh yes they must apologise they must apologise they must not to try to and if they have a point i just snuck up on a judge there in germany to stand there understand and i want to just they have to come to the country demand maybe up and coming up do they apologise here inside in front of the people. in 2015 lynne 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 namibia. stark akin to should judgement on destructive knowledge is the heavy burden of the german colonial troops incurred for crimes against the head. and son peoples the war of

extermination in namibia between 10041908 was a war crime and genocide the german blunder stuck there for emphasizes germany's continuing responsibility for the future of namibia i mean. germany had finally acknowledged the genocide but what would be the result how would berlin address its responsibility i hope question paul ince was appointed chief negotiator but talks were held only within the media and government. descendants of the head arrow and nama victims were not invited to the negotiating table. and number 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 all people. to march of genocide has come to the cemetery. for the head oh unama 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. paul ince 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 been who there's a monument called the genocide statue. it recalls the suffering experienced one of

the german colony a lucky patient and calls upon the various groups to find new ways to deal with the past. we would country we'll continue with our demise and deal in germany 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. solution to this problem. germany came to us as a chapter and we all want to clean that up to come within a new generation and you shipped off to that open in in progress in the whole and be part of the world.

if you liberty. our liberty. comes africa. if liberty comes. and i am not here. please come around to my grave. concern quietly. that africa. is free. and unite. into the conflict zone with sebastian with time running out cold brussels on london to get a back seat deal. climbing to keep the blame on the britain's if i'm negotiating this fight my guest this week here in prague is the czech foreign minister tomas

patricia he has surprisingly clear differences with the government so why doesn't he resign so folks in. dublin. after the fall of the berlin wall november knowing d.w. . going to play a milf and i'm game and we got a brand new zealanders in the bottom is pulled it's personal devices and it's about topics that affect us all a lot of solutions climate change and the maternal. family

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