the genocide of their peoples by German colonial rulers more than a century ago in what is now Namibia.

The suit also demands that their representatives of these two groups be included in negotiations between Germany and Namibia on the issue.

The two countries have been in talks about a joint declaration on the massacres in 1904 and 1905.

Germany acknowledges a genocide occurred.

It refuses to pay direct reparations, saying that its development aid worth hundreds of millions of euros since Namibia’s independence from South Africa

in 1990 was for the benefit of all Namibians.

The plaintiffs counter that their  class action suit is on behalf of all Ovaherero and Nama worldwide, seeking reparations and compensation for the

genocide suffered at the hands of the German colonial authorities.

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