Namibia's Century-old Genocide Continues to Fester

A new lawsuit in a U.S. court is reawakening a century-old mass slaughter of Namibia's Herero and Nama peoples by German colonial forces, an event that has been described as the 20th century's first genocide. When Vekuii Rukoro was a boy in what is now Namibia, his family would gather around a fire and tell stories.   Stories of horror and humiliation, of unarmed women and children killed by German soldiers, of terrified families driven into the searing desert to die of...

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