Namibia has issued fresh calls for reparations from Germany as Namibia marked its first national Genocide Remembrance Day Wednesday. Between 1904 and 1908, German colonial invaders killed up to 100,000 Indigenous people, most from the OvaHerero and Nama communities. This is OvaHerero leader Hoze Riruako.

Hoze Riruako: “What has happened here, because this is the first genocide of the 20th century, this was actually the prelude to the — you know, to the Holocaust. But this is not recorded anywhere. People are not aware of what has happened here, to the same level and same extent as some of the other atrocities.”