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stephie :betterpride_flag:<p>»<a href="https://norden.social/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Namibia</span></a> marks colonial genocide for first time with memorial day«</p><p>Dubbed "<a href="https://norden.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>'s forgotten <a href="https://norden.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a>", and described by historians as the first genocide of the 20th Century, the systematic murder of more than 70,000 Africans is being marked with a national day of remembrance for the first time in Namibia.</p><p>»The victims, primarily from the <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a> and <a href="https://norden.social/tags/Nama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nama</span></a> communities, were targeted because they refused to let the colonisers take their land and cattle.«</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0jkynyln2o" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/cy0jkyny</span><span class="invisible">ln2o</span></a></p>
🇨🇦 Ron Sparks 🇨🇦 #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦<p>On this day in 1908 German colonial authorities closed their concentration camps in Namibia. Tens of thousands of Nama and Herero were killed from 1904-1908 in what is recognized today as genocide. <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/namibia-marks-first-genocide-remembrance-day/a-72702528?at_medium=Messenger&amp;at_campaign=WhatsApp-Channel&amp;at_number=DW_News&amp;at_dw_language=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.dw.com/en/namibia-m...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Namibia" target="_blank">#Namibia</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Nama" target="_blank">#Nama</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Herero" target="_blank">#Herero</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Germany" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Africa" target="_blank">#Africa</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23WestAfrica" target="_blank">#WestAfrica</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Namaqua" target="_blank">#Namaqua</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Ovaherero" target="_blank">#Ovaherero</a><br><br><a href="https://www.dw.com/en/namibia-marks-first-genocide-remembrance-day/a-72702528?at_medium=Messenger&amp;at_campaign=WhatsApp-Channel&amp;at_number=DW_News&amp;at_dw_language=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Namibia marks first Genocide R...</a></p>
nd.Aktuell<p>Die <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a> und <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Nama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nama</span></a> erinnern an den Vernichtungsbefehl der deutschen Kolonialtruppen. Die Aufarbeitung von deutscher Seite bleibt mangelhaft. <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Kolonialverbrechen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kolonialverbrechen</span></a> <a href="https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1185689.genozid-deutsche-kolonialverbrechen-in-namibia-zweifelhafte-versoehnung.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1185689.</span><span class="invisible">genozid-deutsche-kolonialverbrechen-in-namibia-zweifelhafte-versoehnung.html</span></a></p>
nd.Aktuell<p>Vor genau 120 Jahren erging der Vernichtungsbefehl der deutschen Kolonialherren gegen die <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a>. Die Nachfahren der Opfer verlangen weiterhin Gerechtigkeit. <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Kolonialismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kolonialismus</span></a> <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Namibia</span></a> <a href="https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1185687.namibia-wir-wurden-lange-mit-unserem-kampf-allein-gelassen.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1185687.</span><span class="invisible">namibia-wir-wurden-lange-mit-unserem-kampf-allein-gelassen.html</span></a></p>
🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung<p>Heute vor 120 Jahren, am 2. Oktober 1904, verlas General Lothar von Trotha auf einem kleinen Hügel im zentralnamibischen Otjinene seinen berüchtigten Vernichtungsbefehl gegen die <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnDiesemTag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnDiesemTag</span></a> 🧵</p>
Paria sans portefeuille<p>"By the end of the German campaign, in 1908, more than 65,000 <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a>, more than two-thirds of the population, and 10,000 <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Nama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nama</span></a>, around half the population, had been killed. Their ancestral lands were not returned to the survivors. [..] In 1902, less than 1 per cent of South-West Africa was owned by Europeans; after the <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> the figure was more than 20 per cent." </p><p><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/EyalWeizman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EyalWeizman</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/eyal-weizman/three-genocides" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n08/ey</span><span class="invisible">al-weizman/three-genocides</span></a><br><a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/HereroAndNamaGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HereroAndNamaGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Namibia</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/ColonialViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ColonialViolence</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://jasette.facil.services/tags/Herero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Herero</span></a></p>
medico international<p>... und dann zum Gedenkmarsch nach Shark Island, auf der das tödlichste der Konzentrationslager des deutschen Genozids an Nama und <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a> stand. 3/11</p>
IndiaNewsWatch<p>Germany Needs to Own Up to the Horrors of Its Colonial Past in Africa </p><p>Germany’s reckoning with the Holocaust is widely taken as a model of historical accountability — yet it has proven far less willing to confront its colonial past in Africa. Maresi Starzmann writes.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>germany</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GermanSouthWestAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GermanSouthWestAfrica</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ovaherero</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nama</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OvahereroGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OvahereroGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>namibia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodon</span></a></p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2020/07/german-colonialism-herero-nama-genocide-court-case" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2020/07/german-col</span><span class="invisible">onialism-herero-nama-genocide-court-case</span></a></p>
Kunterbuntes Neukölln<p>Zur Veranschaulichung dieser Auseinandersetzung mit dem Gedenkstein bittet das Museum Neukölln die Zivilgesellschaft um Mithilfe:&nbsp;"Wir suchen aktuelles und historisches Bildmaterial zum Gedenkensemble in all seinen unterschiedlichen Facetten."</p><p><a href="https://www.berlin.de/ba-neukoelln/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/2023/pressemitteilung.1343855.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">berlin.de/ba-neukoelln/aktuell</span><span class="invisible">es/pressemitteilungen/2023/pressemitteilung.1343855.php</span></a></p><p><a href="https://det.social/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Berlin</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Neuk%C3%B6lln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neukölln</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Herero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Herero</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Nama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nama</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Hererostein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hererostein</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/BuriedMemories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuriedMemories</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Namibia</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Decolonize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonize</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/DecolonizeBerlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DecolonizeBerlin</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/BuriedMemories" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BuriedMemories</span></a> <a href="https://det.social/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a> </p><p>Bitte wenden Sie sich dazu an:&nbsp;matthias.henkel@museum-neukoelln.de</p>
Frau Mensch 😷<p>Im Kinofilm DER VERMESSENE MENSCH widmet sich „Das schweigende Klassenzimmer“-Regisseur Lars Kraume erneut einem Kapitel deutscher Geschichte: den <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Kolonialverbrechen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kolonialverbrechen</span></a>, die Deutschland Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts im heutigen <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Namibia</span></a> begangen hat. Der Film erzählt von einem jungen Berliner Ethnologen, der in der Kolonie „Deutsch-Südwestafrika“ zum Zeugen des Genozids an den <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ovaherero</span></a> und <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Nama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nama</span></a> wird – und dabei auch die eigenen moralischen Grenzen übertritt.<br><a href="https://youtu.be/gNx9HNncZCA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/gNx9HNncZCA</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
medico international<p>"Was bedeutet es, dass die Nachfahren der deutschen Siedler immer noch einen Großteil des Landes besitzen, das eurem Volk gestohlen wurde?" </p><p>Dieser Frage wird der Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Robert Habeck sich auf seiner Reise nach <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Namibia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Namibia</span></a> wohl nicht gewidmet haben. Besser wäre es gewesen. </p><p>Wir haben mit Nandiuasora Mazeingo von der „Ovaherero Genocide Foundation“ gesprochen:<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ovaherero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ovaherero</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.medico.de/blog/fuer-das-recht-auf-die-eigene-existenz-kaempfen-18899" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">medico.de/blog/fuer-das-recht-</span><span class="invisible">auf-die-eigene-existenz-kaempfen-18899</span></a></p>