A dark period: 1904 - 1908

HOMO SAPIENS WRITES:This was a dark period in the colonial history, of the then, German South West Africa.Were there negotiations or a declaration of war by the Herero/Nama coalition? Who supplied the .303 Lee-Enfield weapons from British Betjuana Land protectorate and the British Cape Colony? Where did the combatants flee to, when pursued?This “genocidal” colonial war, followed the Great South African, Anglo-Boer war of 1899 - 1902. The German Kaiser supplied Kruger with Mauser rifles and Krupp artillery. The Herero/Nama uprising was payback time.The empire forces followed a scorched earth of all farms, policy during the Guerrilla war in South Africa. 27 000 Women and children died in the concentration camps. This was the first genocide of the 20th century. Emily Hobhouse was a witness to these atrocities. The driving force was gold, greed, mammon, power for Queen, God and Empire.Reparations and reconciliation are overdue, but please also involve the silent hypocrites of that era, the British. Their legacy in North America, India, Australia and New Zealand follows a pattern of power abuse and not Christian civilization.* Rubrieke, meningstukke, briewe en SMS’e deur lesers en meningvormers weerspieël nie noodwendig die siening van Republikein of Namibia Media Holdings (NMH) nie. As mediahuis onderskryf NMH die etiese kode vir Namibiese media, soos toegepas deur die Media-ombudsman.

A dark period: 1904 - 1908

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