Namibia marks Genocide Remembrance Day recalling victims of German rule
President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah referred to a day of remembrance and of common pain. 'We will never forget the emotional, psychological, economical and cultural scars that were left,' she said in an address to the nation.
More than 100 years ago, on May 28, 1907, the German colonial authorities ordered the closure of concentration camps in the colony in response to international criticism of brutal conditions and high death rates in them. South West Africa, as Namibia was known at the time, was a German colony from 1884 until 1915. An uprising by the Herero and Nama population was brutally repressed during a war between 1904 and 1908. (DPA)
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