ARB Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/arb/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ARB Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/arb/ 32 32 Germany returns Herero skulls to Namibia https://jjcornish.com/2018/08/germany-returns-herero-skulls-to-namibia/ Tue, 28 Aug 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/08/germany-returns-herero-skulls-to-namibia/ Germany has returned to Namibian authorities the skulls of Herero and Nama people killed in a genocide more than a century ago. Today’s handover at a Berlin church is the third by the German government that refuses to pay reparations for the  killing of more than 100 000 colonial subjects. The Herero and Nama people […]

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]]> Germany has returned to Namibian authorities the skulls of Herero and Nama people killed in a genocide more than a century ago.

Today’s handover at a Berlin church is the third by the German government that refuses to pay reparations for the  killing of more than 100 000 colonial subjects.

The Herero and Nama people are growing impatient with the German government, that admits the killings of  Hereros and Namaquas in retaliation for their rebellion in 2004 was the first genocide of the 20th century, but refuses to pay reparations.

The skulls of many victims were sent to Germany for scientific research purporting to show the inferior brain capacity of Africans.

The German public broadcaster ARD says the skulls of 1 000 Rwandans and 60 Tanzanians killed during German colonial times are still in Berlin.

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