Tens of thousands of Hereros and at least 10 000 Namas were killed by the Germans when they revealed between 1904 and 1908.

New York Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled that the Herero and Nama claim was inadmissible because of Germany’s sovereignty immunity during its 31-year colonization of Namibia.

Herero chief Vekuii Rukero says the judge was wrong and the ruling would be appealed.

The claim was made in New York because the tribes maintain there is an American commercial involvement in the genocide because bones of the victims were  sold in the  United States.

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President Hage Geingob’s says his country’s the second most unequal society on the planet behind  South Africa.

Pressure groups, non governmental organisations and opposition parties have withdrawn from the land conference in Windhoek.

Namibian President Hage Geingob urges them to return to the process driven by mending inequality.

He says land was seized without compensation from Namibian people in the liberation struggle following the arrival of German troops.

He cited the infamous massacre of Ovambo and Nama people in the early nineteen hundreds.

Geingob says the settler colonies of Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe share the historical problem of indigenous people being driven off their land.

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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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