Tag: genocide

Turkey has called China’s treatment of its ethnic Uyghurs people “a great embarrassment for humanity”, prompting a backlash from the…

As Germany finds itself under increasing pressure to return stolen artefacts to its former colony of Namibia and address the…

A former Nazi SS guard, labelled “the bookkeeper of Auschwitz” by the media, has died in hospital before serving a…

The Dutch parliament has angered Turkey by voting overwhelmingly to recognise the massacre of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians by…

Germany has asked a US court to throw out a lawsuit brought by indigenous Namibian tribes seeking reparations for the…

Germany promised an apology to Namibia for colonial-era genocide before its September general election but bilateral talks drag on with…

Germany is apparently refusing to accept a court summons to appear in the US Federal Court in New York in…

The 1904-8 butchery of Namibian tribes that rose up against the German colonial forces continues to account for poverty and…

Herero survivors after the 1904-1908 uprising. Lawyers representing two Namibian tribes are meeting for a pre-trial conference in New York…

The Marine Denkmal statue in Swakopmund. Source: Flickr   A statue of a German marine holding a rifle and guarding…

Child survivors at Auschwitz. Source: Wikimedia Poland has published the first online database of the details of nearly 10,000 staff…

Herero prisoners of war in 1904. Source: Wikimedia Germany is facing a court case in the US from members of…

The Askari colonial troops in German East Africa in around 1906. Source: Wikimedia   In what has been called the…

The Herero complain of ongoing subjugation. Source: Wikimedia Tribal communities in Namibia are demanding justice from their former colonial occupier,…

French soldier in the 1994 international force supporting the relief effort for Rwandan refugees adjusts concertina wire surrounding Kigali’s airport….