1904 Namibian Genocide: Germany Tenders An Apology For Its Hidden Horrors In Africa- Over 100 Years Later

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Unimaginable savagery: 1904- Herero Africans held captive in Shark Island Namibia were beheaded for medical experiments

“We Germans accept our historic and moral responsibility and the guilt incurred by Germans at that time,” said Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Germany’s development aid minister, at a ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the Hereros’ 1904-1907 uprising against their rulers.

“The atrocities committed at that time would have been termed genocide,” she said, according to Associated Press.

Namibia Shark island 1904- Tens of thousands of African men, women and children of the Herero and Nama nations were held captive, transported to shark island by German armed men for free labour, rape, medical experiments and eventual genocidal erasures.

The genocide happened in 1904 after the Herero people revolted against an invasion and an oppressive German colonial rule.

General Lothar von Trotha was sent to what was then South West Africa to put down the 1904 uprising and, according to historians, instructed his troops to wipe out the tribe.

The survivors of the genocide were taken as captives and herded into camps and allocated as slave labour to German businesses, where many died of overwork and starvation