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22. Tag der Erinnerung und Mahnung - Rassismus beim Namen nennen: Aktionstag gegen Rassismus, Neonazismus und Krieg, SO, 9. September 2012, 13-18 Uhr, Tempelhofer Flugfeld

Am Sonntag, den 9. September 2012 zwischen 13 und 18 Uhr findet der 22. Tag der Erinnerung und Mahnung auf dem Tempelhofer Feld | Columbiadamm (ehemaliger Flughafen Tempelhof) statt. Unter dem... |+| read article

Press Release: The Position of the OCD-1904 on the Genocide Motion in the German Bundestag

The OCD-1904 condemns the CDU/CSU and FDP coalition for voting against the motions tabled by the Left Party and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens Party respectively. It was irresponsible for the coalition to vote against the wishes of the... |+| read article

PRESS RELEASE: German Federal Government refuses to apologise for genocide

Joint Press Release: AfricAvenir International - Afrika-Rat Berlin-Brandenburg - Arbeitskreis Panafrikanismus München (AKPM) - Artefakte//anti-humboldt - Berlin Postkolonial - Deutsch-Afrikanische Gesellschaft Berlin (DAFRIG) - Initiative Schwarze Menschen in... |+| read article

PRESSEMITTEILUNG: Bundesregierung verweigert Entschuldigung für Völkermord

Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: AfricAvenir International - Afrika-Rat Berlin-Brandenburg - Arbeitskreis Panafrikanismus München (AKPM) - Artefakte//anti-humboldt - Berlin Postkolonial - Deutsch-Afrikanische Gesellschaft Berlin (DAFRIG) - Initiative Schwarze... |+| read article

PRESSEMITTEILUNG: Völkermord verjährt nicht! (Demo: 22.03., 17 Uhr, s.u.)

Deutschland muss endlich um Entschuldigung bitten für den Genozid in Namibia und die Nachfahren der Opfer entschädigen. Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von: AfricAvenir International, Afrika-Rat Berlin Brandenburg, Afrika-Rat Nord, AFROTAK TV cyberNomads,... |+| read article

Letter by P.E.Muundjua (Ovaherero Genocide Committee) to the German NGO-Alliance, 18.03.2012

Dear Mr. Kopp, et al.
Thank you so much for your note of support to us of the Ovaherero Genocide Committee and to our other friends in the struggle for justice. I am writing to you and through you also to the members of your NGO... |+| read article

Editorial: Germany’s genocide in Namibia – Unbearable silence, or How not to deal with your colonial past

On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a |+| motion to acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero peoples. Germany’s... |+| read article

Reinhart Kössler/Henning Melber: The genocide in Namibia (1904-08) and its consequences: Toward a culture of memory for a memory culture today – a German perspective

The repatriation of human remains more than a century after they were taken to Germany from Namibia has evoked painful memories of colonial wars in which primary African resistance was crushed, and genocide perpetrated (1904–08) in what was then the colony of... |+| read article

Peter H. Katjavivi: The significance of the repatriation of Namibian human skulls

Former Namibian Ambassador to Germany, Prof. Peter H. Katjavivi, who was instrumental in getting the repatriation process with Charité started, calls upon both Namibians and Germans to confront the past honestly as part of the process of recovering human... |+| read article

Kwame Opoku: Return of stolen skulls by Germany to Namibia: Closure of a horrible chapter?

Refuting in detail the arguments proffered by Germany on the questions of apology and compensation for the genocide of the Herero and the Nama, Dr Kwame Opoku notes that the Namibia-Germany case is being keenly observed by other African peoples and states... |+| read article

Casper W. Erichsen: Skullduggery and necrophilia in colonial Namibia

Names, dates, statistics, records, photographs – Namibia-based historian, Casper W. Erichsen, explains some of the factual evidence of the multiple atrocities that were part of the genocide in Namibia. At the end of the 19th century the rediscovery of... |+| read article

Horst Kleinschmidt: The absence of reconciliation

Namibian-born Horst Kleinschmidt provides challenging observations and personal family history linked to the colonial era. Urging both Germany and German-speaking Namibians to confront their past honestly, he offers examples of apologies made in similar... |+| read article

Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari: The return of the Herero and Nama skulls: Coming to terms with a difficult history

In his analysis of the failure over more than two decades to deal with the genocide, Alfredo Tjiurimo Hengari looks at the changing attitudes of Namibia’s SWAPO-led government and the role of the Namibian media as well as Germany’s evasive political... |+| read article

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