Windhoek: President Netumbo Nandi-Naditvah on Wednesday reiterated the call to Germany to pay re-evaluation for his massacre against the Namibian tribes as he led the official memory of the first atrocities to atrocities more than 120 years ago.It is believed as a massacre of the 20th century before the revolt against his rule, thousands of indigenous Hero and Nama were massacred by German soldiers of colonial-era between 1904 and 1908. Nandi-Naditwa said at a ceremony held in the gardens of Parliament, “We should get a degree of rest in the fact that the German government has agreed that German soldiers have committed a massacre against the people of our land.”He said that Berlin offered an apology, but there is still no agreement on revaluation in a conversation launched with the German government in 2013.He said, “We should be committed that as a nation, we will do the soldiers till they reach the final conclusion.”Germany has promised more than one billion euro ($ 1 billion) in development assistance in 30 years to benefit the descendants of the two tribes, emphasizing that it cannot be considered as a payment of revaluation. Namibia has rejected the proposal.The memory included around 1,000 people including the German Ambassador, Thorson Hutter. Candles were lit in honor of the victims and songs and speeches were given after a minute’s silence.Hutter said, “This reminds of the pain and suffering that was provoked by the German royal soldiers during the colonial era.”“I believe that it is important to understand that we cannot change the past, but the people who are living today are our responsibility to remember the atrocities that were committed,” he said.After a long and sometimes sharp conversation, in 2021 Germany formed a genocide of killings by its settlers. Estimated 60,000 Hero and 10,000 NAMA people were killed. Some were killed and their skulls were handed over to researchers in Berlin, as later the blacks were implicated to prove the racial superiority of whites on blacks.Germany returned the skull and other human remains in Namibia in 2011 and 2018. The annual massacre on May 28 was selected for the memory of the memorial memory as it was the day in 1907 when German authorities ordered the closure of concentration camps after international criticism at cruel circumstances and high mortality.It has been declared a public holiday in Namibia, a massive population and large -scale desert nation of about three million people.
