No confidence in reparations negotiations means none in the Joint Declaration!
How, when, where, and why could the Namibian government have gotten it all wrong?
Kae Matundu-Tjiparuro
How, when, where, and why could the Namibian government have gotten it all wrong?
These remain four of the biggest pertinent questions, among a plethora of questions, regarding the untenable – but by no means irreversible and inextricable – situation in which the demand of the Ovaherero and Nama for justice pertaining to their genocide has been indifferently and negligently, if not maliciously and deliberately, diverted and driven into.
For sure, there can be no other perspective and/or logical conclusion, at least in the eyes, dissection, digestion, and understanding, let alone imagination, of the descendants of the forebears who survived the genocide committed by Imperial Germany, reaching its peak between the years 1904 and 1908. The years 1904–1908 being but mere culminations of a host of human rights violations, punctuated by many atrocities since the advent of occupational colonial penetration led by traders and missionaries, peaking into two extermination orders – one in 1904 against the Ovaherero, and the other against the Nama in 1905.
