You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Protesters in Namibia Condemn Proposed Deal with Germany over Genocide Reparations

HeadlineSep 23, 2021

Namibia resumed debate this week on a possible agreement with Germany over the former colonizer’s genocide of tens of thousands of Ovaherero and Nama people in the early 1900s. Hundreds protested in front of Namibia’s Parliament Tuesday against the proposed deal, which includes a payment of more than $1.34 billion, paid out over 30 years. This is McHenry Venaani, president of the Popular Democratic Movement, addressing the deal.

McHenry Venaani: “For the last 31 years, the Namibian government has received more than $1.1 billion from the German government. The Germans — listen very carefully — the Germans say they are guilty of murdering us. But for this guilt, they are paying the same amount that they have been paying the government for the last 31 years.”

The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

Non-commercial news needs your support

We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
Please do your part today.
Make a donation
Top