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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