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| Forgotten Atrocities: The Ovaherero and Nama Genocide |
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| Start Date: | 4/26/2018 | Start Time: | 6:00 PM |
| End Date: | 4/26/2018 | End Time: | 8:00 PM |
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Event Description:
Forgotten Atrocities:
The Ovaherero and Nama Genocide
by The Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) at John Jay College
Thu, April 26, 2018
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
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For the most part, the age of imperialism has come and gone; however, the catastrophic effects of colonialism remain all too evident in many former imperial subjects. Among the most deeply scarred societies is that of the Ovaherero and Nama people, current inhabitants of the Republic of Namibia. Claimed as a German colony in the early 1880s by Kaiser Wilhelm II, former South West Africa endured a long campaign of racial extermination in what is considered to be the first genocide of the 20th century. By the time German forces had left the region in 1908, it is estimated that 65,000-80,000 Ovaherero and 10,000 Nama lives had been lost. |
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