(ANSA-AFP) - WINDHOEK, MAY 28 - Germany's recognition of having committed genocide in Namibia is the "first step in the right direction". This was stated by the spokesman for the president of the African country, Hage Geingob Alfredo Hengari.
Berlin today acknowledged that it committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation and promised financial support worth over a billion euros to help projects in the country. The Germans killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama indigenous people in the massacres of 1904-1908, defined by historians as the first genocide of the 20th century.
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