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Germany Returns Skulls Of Namibian Genocide Victims by panafrican(m): 4:46pm On Aug 29, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzJEQEjv82I


Germany returns skulls of Namibian genocide victims
BBC. Wednesday August 29, 2018



Germany has handed back the human remains of indigenous people killed during a genocide in colonial Namibia more than 100 years ago.

A Namibian government delegation received the skulls at a church service in the capital, Berlin.

The bones had been sent to Germany for now-discredited research to prove the racial superiority of white Europeans.

Tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people were murdered in response to an anti-colonial uprising.

Why was an extermination order issued?

The genocide began in 1904 after a Herero and Nama rebellion in response to the German expropriation of their land and cattle

The head of the military administration in what was then known as German South West Africa, Lothar von Trotha, issued an extermination order in October 1904.

The Herero and Nama were forced into the desert and any who were found trying to return to their land were either killed or put into concentration camps.

There is no agreed figure of how many died but some estimates have put it as high as 100,000.
It is thought that 75% of the Herero population and half of the Nama population died.

The skulls of some of the victims were sent to Germany where racial anthropologists studied them as part of an attempt to justify a theory about the superiority of Europeans.

There are thought to be hundreds of Namibian skulls in Germany and on Wednesday more than 25 remains were handed back.

Skulls from Germany's other African colonies, including modern day Cameroon, Tanzania, Rwanda and Togo, were also used in the discredited studies.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-45342586

Re: Germany Returns Skulls Of Namibian Genocide Victims by LuciferChristi: 4:54pm On Aug 29, 2018
The Federal Government of Nigeria should rescind every Namibian Visa issued to any Afonja sounding-name now!


My hand no dey there oo

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Re: Germany Returns Skulls Of Namibian Genocide Victims by Ekez(m): 4:55pm On Aug 29, 2018
Ok wetin dem wan use their skull do?
Wait dem try see the skull no be nigeria naim full budjet loss talkin about somebody wey die 100years ago

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