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>