Namibia to Hold First Commemoration of German Genocide This Week

Namibia this week will holdits first national commemoration for victims of mass killings by German occupiers in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century, the government said.

Colonial-era German troops massacred tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people who rebelled against their rule in the southern African country between 1904 and 1908.

It was known from 1884 to 1915 as German South West Africa, or Deutsch-Südwestafrika in German, part of the German…