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monument to namibia in southern africa bears these words to preserve the colony against the herero 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 stories told by the elders of the village at the 5. stories about the battles of the all of them by the. cure owing stories from the war against squadron unison. being the odd 2 of the system was born for us.

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 of the heart at 0 unama. they were colonial german army uniforms it's a dark chapter in history that germany prefers to forget. you know maybe it's a history that burdens people to this day. and. the picturesque town of swack up 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 hereto people of namibia more than 100 years ago. and outreach the city councillor blocking me so copy introduced a motion for the monuments removal. is the birth of the bishop germany that's my opinion that's but it ought to be destroyed it. does mean.

in my motion. to take it to the issue 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 heroine nama people have gathered for a protest. the statue is a disgrace a monument to colonial and racial oppression. their way the german people are out trying to be out of their way that just. because they don't recognize what they did and still we're having the blood of their blood. namibia's colonial past is more visible and more 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. the scenic spotless charm us walk up and trust throngs of tourists to this day the town is still dominated by whites about 2000 people live in the. some of them are descendants of the 1st settlers who came here under german colonial rule. just a few kilometers from the center of 1000 lives 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 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 over there where the history with the words and the demand. for the firearms is in the hands of the german people not to. send the store. don't. some of them lend also the. will to the. well. i mean that is 7 now as i'm talking.

where did this conflict over land began much of southwestern africa's. in the 19th century the inhabitants were nomadic cattle breeders hunters and gatherers. the largest groups where the. 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. too and vast deserts to find the landscape the nominee and the color. in 829 the german relish missionary society sent its 1st missionaries. they took

photographs and kept a diary which remains an important historical document. the germans found it missions they named battalion noise and and. to bring the light of civilization to the dark continent they said. local people were deeply skeptical about the missionaries arrival. but. nobody. but i guess you don't want. to decide who to try to secure only. i guess you'd have to go to so much. 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 branded and promises to one tribe sometimes to another. the land they captured remains the cornerstone of white farmer holders in namibia to this day. 'd place to learn how they know a country. and those of us who parents have been driven away from their laying. lend and other properties. which today should have been our inheritance. and whose the provision 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 ringback. i don't pfluger 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 picking up he began negotiations with a 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 have to go it says enormous estate german emperor villa one of 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 it was renamed you know 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 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 2 sought to stake its claim for a place in the sun. conduct of believe me for a very long time. for holiness and we were told the names of the condor partners openly. the extraordinary skills the diplomatic governments the motivation behind everyone the pacific ocean of africa the 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 as if you were in. 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 it 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 norm 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 in teaching and protection. and this dry land is only known by 2 names and our land and family. and. in a calm as you have. no other captain a leader has any right to force his way. but you do you captain you have no except 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 which the jackal carried on his back in which burned him to death. with the sun on his back the traditional namibian fable as a warning against false friends. hendrik which 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 unicycle 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 attack the nama community at point cards with the aim of eliminating which point the attack was a brutal massacre helpless women and children were killed with boy escaped. with 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 group 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. and the last it could be the beginning 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 wrong and mocked by german merchants. who was taken away with force. they were frightened maltreated. 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 worries 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. had it all called for armed struggle. let us be fair to day to. give away the fighting rather than by mel treatment.

on january 12th 1904 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 180400 at all wrote. me coming. back. i mean you know mike i'm with you just you know but. how many. now we know. the german colonial troops were no match for the heard of 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 gym an awful d.t.s. of the time. i actually said down. and in a calculated mina. in a coach related manner. decided to to say that somebody who was hand picked to come into a specific job. in one truck came here.

and for the 1st time in the history of mankind. said out they did not settle intend 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. 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 1004 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. that heard it all remember the fighting that followed as the battle of. general issued his infamous extermination order. for hetero are no longer german subjects within the german borders every head at 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 their 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 oh understood this was a call to genocide. in the initial bow to hit it off beat back the german troops. like the colonial troops they were familiar with the climate and the terrain.

wanted to drive the head you know into the desert and blocked other escape routes a quote from him says the waterless on my shell complete what the german weapons had. the annihilation of the hetero people. we accompany muddier cut your you to come 1st to the former battlefield or members of the people this is a very important place you know 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 a strong machinery of germany and no one in the media 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 they are what it what belongs to them. the study of the enemy was to circle the place where i could do with getting water and to an extent also poisoning the water so that they will kill them. and this is what happened and that's why this place this very important in our history. with it. for me it's very heavy this. is my 1st time ever. to be here. if you hear the history from all the people that you. belong. here. it's it's it's it's it's pain when you feel. pain that you cannot describe.

in words. because many people have to face. imagine chairman. with all the. i meant to commission mission and everything. my people are there going to be they did not have enough. gas. not to those big. national issue. but for the love of the our own country they said that all. men women and children if you all got on here and so on we'll 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 dippin in the media you have to ask for

permission for some of to come here well this place should actually belong to us. only about 1200 head of 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 dates of birth and death and military honors ringback. the cemetery is supported by the german war graves commission 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 sisters are very we piece the soil. past those places and they don't belong to us. so it is not something that is forgotten the reality is still there. going up talk around i would see the mountain of water back which is why we're about assistance 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 we flew into our 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 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 or preserve all 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 the 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 a lavish celebrations. diamond deposits brought the area of brief flurry 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. as we're tracing her family's roots are great great grandmother was imprisoned here . little is known about her but jesse 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 the alive may have a winter 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 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. men had to clean the heads off you know the men and people that were beheaded you know it 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 german blood. my grandmother says and told me that there was german

soldiers around and there was a captain who then would call for her oh 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 a hat and then they would say 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 simply going other drugs soldier then they would take her to the captain's quarters. to 0. in 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 rape in all this atrocity head on on on our people it seems as if somehow someway

might people stop their right. because somehow in the past this whole thing was killed. by the way with. what you know. so our dignity. human being being. tarnished 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 had to apply to the german colonial administration. from the age of 7 native people were made to wear a metal identification tag that bore and identification number and the person's 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 and. the world is filled 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 incredible 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 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 perhaps to south

africa. the german colonial troops left the country passing through and new to its being. 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. promise 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 the germans had started. in the 1960 s. black africans began to mobilize they founded south west africa people's organisation for swap for. 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 same new drama return from exile he spent 30 years abroad mainly in tanzania and then call up. the 1st free elections took place sparking fresh hope the old and been told it 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 maybe a 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 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 shanty to 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. 'd oh yes they must apologise they

must apologise they must not to try to have an example of just not to apologize there in germany to stand there understand and apologize they have to come to the country demand maybe a. and coming up to their apartment just here in sight. 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 namibia. struck a condition which i don't under stock of 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 10041008 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 bird lynn address its responsibility i hope question paul ince was appointed chief negotiator the talks were held only within the media and government. descendants of the head of it all 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 old people. 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 the whole push poland's responded. as for it 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 is a monument called the genocide statue. it recalls the suffering experienced one of the german colonial occupation and calls upon the various groups to find new ways to deal with the past. we were country we will continue with our demand 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 talked 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 battle in in progress in the whole and be part of the world. if you liberty. i want to take. africa. if liberty comes. and i am not here. please come around to my grave.

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