Policy paper
2022
From fall 2015 onwards, the governments of Germany and Namibia have been in negotiations concerning the genocide committed by imperial German forces in what is present-day Namibia. Between 1904-1908, tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama were killed – in response to their resistance to colonial violence and land grabs by German settlers. The declared aim of the current negotiations was to establish Germany’s role in the genocide and seek reconciliation. Ovaherero and Nama communities, in turn, demanded reparations.
