Critical need for information
METUSALEM NEIB WRITES:
According to the Cross–cultural Trust of Namibia (CCTN) in historical times the number of Damara inhabitants in the country was officially estimated and information recorded.
Communication about the San and Damara genocides is most obviously shaped by national political and cultural frameworks.
The CCTN made corrections and gives the right information for reparation negotiations to Mr. Ruprecht Polenz, Germany's special envoy.
A total of 20 000 of the ancient tribes' people were massacred. Two thirds during the Herero and Nama genocides of 1904 to 1908.
Stow (1905:257) estimated the Damara population in 1880 at around 30 000 (Understanding Genocides: Our Age of Suffering / Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen). Even though the Berg Damara had not even rebelled, the Germans killed about one third or 10 000 of them merely because of the trouble distinguishing them from the Herero.
According to William D. Rubinstein in Genocide in the Colonial Age 1492-1914 the Herero and Nama outright massacred one third (10 000) of the Damara who had not joined in the uprising of the Herero and Nama during 1904 to 1908. Many young San and Damara men were used by the leaders of the Herero and Nama as foot soldiers and were horribly killed in the Herero and Nama genocide.
Until at least the midst 1980's the German military graveyards at the Waterberg contained a gravestone in remembrance of the Herero and Damara soldiers who fought alongside the Germans in the battle at Hamakari and the war as a whole.
The political exclusion of CCTN and the San and Damara recognized traditional authorities from the current talks challenges inequalities to be evaluated in terms of rights, democracy and justice. Liberalism must allow the San and Damara to defend their basic needs and rights.All societies need information, but Namibia's democratic society has a critical need.
According to the Cross–cultural Trust of Namibia (CCTN) in historical times the number of Damara inhabitants in the country was officially estimated and information recorded.
Communication about the San and Damara genocides is most obviously shaped by national political and cultural frameworks.
The CCTN made corrections and gives the right information for reparation negotiations to Mr. Ruprecht Polenz, Germany's special envoy.
A total of 20 000 of the ancient tribes' people were massacred. Two thirds during the Herero and Nama genocides of 1904 to 1908.
Stow (1905:257) estimated the Damara population in 1880 at around 30 000 (Understanding Genocides: Our Age of Suffering / Worse Than War by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen). Even though the Berg Damara had not even rebelled, the Germans killed about one third or 10 000 of them merely because of the trouble distinguishing them from the Herero.
According to William D. Rubinstein in Genocide in the Colonial Age 1492-1914 the Herero and Nama outright massacred one third (10 000) of the Damara who had not joined in the uprising of the Herero and Nama during 1904 to 1908. Many young San and Damara men were used by the leaders of the Herero and Nama as foot soldiers and were horribly killed in the Herero and Nama genocide.
Until at least the midst 1980's the German military graveyards at the Waterberg contained a gravestone in remembrance of the Herero and Damara soldiers who fought alongside the Germans in the battle at Hamakari and the war as a whole.
The political exclusion of CCTN and the San and Damara recognized traditional authorities from the current talks challenges inequalities to be evaluated in terms of rights, democracy and justice. Liberalism must allow the San and Damara to defend their basic needs and rights.All societies need information, but Namibia's democratic society has a critical need.
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