L’Allemagne a présenté ses excuses à la Namibie pour le génocide de 1904-1908, et promis de verser des réparations. Cette page tragique de l’Histoire n’est pas refermée pour autant.
- Professor in Political Science, Arnold Bergstraesser Institute
German’s commitment of €1.1bn for development projects in Namibia over 30 years is too cheap a price to pay for remorse.
The culture of remembrance in Germany is viewed by many as exemplary. But it has some grave shortcomings.
For the first time since independence, Namibia’s ruling party has suffered electoral setbacks in the midst of economic and political crisis.
Germany praises itself for having declared a ‘special responsibility’ for Namibia since independence. But the relationship is viewed differently from Windhoek.
The third repatriation of human remains in August this year was another missed opportunity for reconciliation between Germany and Namibia.
In mid-2015 the German Foreign Office after decades of denial seemingly acceded, in a very informal way, to labelling what had happened in South West Africa as genocide, is now backtracking.
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