{"id":54570,"date":"2021-05-28T09:53:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T13:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54570"},"modified":"2021-05-28T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T16:01:15","slug":"germany-recognises-colonial-genocide-in-namibia-commits-e1bn-in-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54570","title":{"rendered":"Germany recognises colonial \u2018genocide\u2019 in Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><big>Germany calls atrocities \u2018genocide\u2019 but omits the words \u2018reparations\u2019 or \u2018compensation\u2019 from a joint statement<\/big><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By Philip Oltermann, in Berlin<br \/>\nMay 28, 2021 &#8211; <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/28\/germany-agrees-to-pay-namibia-11bn-over-historical-herero-nama-genocide\">theguardian.com<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54570\"><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/Herero_Nama_genocide.jpg' width='150' height='112' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='The Forgotten Genocide: Herero and Nama, 1904' \/><\/a>Germany has to agreed to pay Namibia \u20ac1.1bn (\u00a3940m) as it officially recognised the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th century, in what Angela Merkel\u2019s government says amounts to a gesture of reconciliation but not legally binding reparations.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of men, women and children were shot, tortured or driven into the Kalahari desert to starve by German troops between 1904 and 1908 after the Herero and Nama tribes rebelled against colonial rule in what was then named German South West Africa and is now Namibia.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nSince 2015, Germany has negotiated with the Namibian government over what it calls an attempt to \u201cheal the wounds\u201d of historic violence.<br \/>\n<A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/28\/germany-agrees-to-pay-namibia-11bn-over-historical-herero-nama-genocide\">Full Article : theguardian.com<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany calls atrocities \u2018genocide\u2019 but omits the words \u2018reparations\u2019 or \u2018compensation\u2019 from a joint statement By Philip Oltermann, in Berlin May 28, 2021 &#8211; theguardian.com Germany has to agreed to pay Namibia \u20ac1.1bn (\u00a3940m) as it officially recognised the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th century, in what Angela Merkel\u2019s government says amounts &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=54570\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Germany recognises colonial \u2018genocide\u2019 in Namibia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,1,1400,5,1542,154,632],"tags":[85,1032,927,1543,1544],"class_list":["post-54570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-general-tt","category-germany","category-international","category-namibia","category-race-and-identity","category-racism-watch","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-genocide","tag-herero","tag-nama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54578,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54570\/revisions\/54578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}