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PAMBAZUKA NEWS 577: SPECIAL ISSUE: GERMANY AND GENOCIDE IN NAMIBIA
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Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839
CONTENTS: 1. Features
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1 Features
GERMANY'S GENOCIDE IN NAMIBIA
Unbearable silence, or How not to deal with your colonial past
Eric Van Grasdorff, Nicolai Röschert and Firoze Manji
On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a motion to
acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero
peoples. Germany's refusal thus far, and its less than even
'diplomatic' treatment in 2011 of the Namibian delegation at the
first-ever return of the mortal remains of genocide victims, demands a
reassessment of suppressed colonial histories and racism.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80911
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THE GENOCIDE IN NAMIBIA (1904-08) AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
Toward a culture of memory for a memory culture today – a German perspective
Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber
The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were
taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial
wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide
perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of German South West
Africa. This contribution situates the current issues and practices of
memory politics between Namibia and Germany within their historical
context.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80912
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REPATRIATION OF NAMIBIAN HUMAN SKULLS
Peter H. Katjavivi
Former Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, who
was instrumental in getting the repatriation process with Charité
started, calls upon both Namibians and Germans to confront the past
honestly as part of the process of recovering human dignity and
thereby healing of the wounds of the past. This process, he writes, is
in the interest of both nations.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80913
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RETURN OF STOLEN SKULLS BY GERMANY TO NAMIBIA: CLOSURE OF A HORRIBLE CHAPTER?
Kwame Opoku
Refuting in detail the arguments proffered by Germany on the questions
of apology and compensation for the genocide of the Herero and the
Nama, Dr Kwame Opoku notes that the Namibia-Germany case is being
keenly observed by other African peoples and states with unresolved
issues relating to the colonial era.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80914
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SKULLDUGGERY AND NECROPHILIA IN COLONIAL NAMIBIA
Casper W. Erichsen
Names, dates, statistics, records, photographs – Namibia-based
historian, Casper W. Erichsen, explains some of the factual evidence
of the multiple atrocities that were part of the genocide in Namibia.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80915
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THE ABSENCE OF RECONCILIATION
Horst Kleinschmid
Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and
personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both
Germany and German-speaking Namibians to confront their past honestly,
he offers examples of apologies made in similar circumstances, and
guidelines for reconciliation and redress.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80916
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THE RETURN OF THE HERERO AND NAMA SKULLS: COMING TO TERMS WITH A
DIFFICULT HISTORY
Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari
In his analysis of the failure over more than two decades to deal with
the genocide, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari looks at the changing attitudes
of Namibia's SWAPO-led government and the role of the Namibian media
as well as Germany's evasive political posturing.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80917
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GERMAN–NAMIBIAN DENIALISM: HOW (NOT) TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE PAST
Reinhart Kössler and Henning Melber
Largely unnoticed by most Namibians, the local German-language daily
Allgemeine Zeitung provides a forum for colonial apologetics. Reinhart
Kössler and Henning Melber examine recent comments and readers'
letters in this newspaper, exposing the reactionary attitudes and
privileging strategies that maintain the minority language as a
barrier to national reconciliation.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80918
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GERMAN DENIAL OF HERERO GENOCIDE
Saunders Jumah
The Germans' inhuman treatment of the Namibian delegation is only the
most recent in a long history of injustice and disrespect towards
African peoples. It is more than time, writes Saunders Jumah, for
Africans to stand together, demand fair and equal treatment according
to international law, and refuse exploitation by anyone.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80921
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'WE HAVE COME BACK HOME…'
Alfons Kaihepovazandu Maharero
Statement by Chief Alfons Kaihepovazandu Maharero, Chairman of the
Ovaherero/ Ovambanderu Council for the Dialogue on the 1904 Genocide
(OCD-1904), on the Occasion of the 'Requiem of the Martyrs' at Heroes
Acre, on October 05, 2011.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80919
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THE BOOK OF CONDOLENCE
To mark the occasion of the restitution by the Berlin Charité Hospital
of the first 20 mortal remains of Namibian victims of the German
genocide, the German NGO Coalition presented the Namibian delegation
with a Book of Condolences, in which people from all over the world
commemorated the dead. The book is still online and open for
condolence messages. In the following, we have put together a
representative selection of these messages.
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/80920
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