Namibia: Amnesty International Urges Germany to Deliver Reparations for Namibia Genocide

Amnesty International has called on Germany to fully acknowledge its legal responsibility for the genocide and other colonial crimes it committed in Namibia.

The international body last week demanded that Germany provide reparations to the descendants of victims.

The call was made on Thursday, marking the 121st anniversary of lieutenant general Lothar von Trotha’s “extermination orders” against the indigenous Ovaherero and Nama people.

A second order targeting the Nama people was made in April…