Ovambander Paramount Chief Aletta Karikondua Nguwauwa addressed the Namibian government about “unfinished colonial issues” with the Federal Republic of Germany in connection with the 1904-1908 genocide, The Namibian reported on March 26.
The chief of the Ovambanderu, a national minority in Namibia, spoke of her ongoing differences with the Namibian government on Saturday during her speech in Swakopmund at Reparations Alley, marking the 20th anniversary of the reparations movement that descendants of the Ovahereros and Nama, victims of the genocide of 1904-1908, founded in 2003.
According to Nguwauwa, the Ovaherero and Ovambanderu Genocide Fund (OGF) and the Assembly of Chiefs (CA), along with other committees and organizations committed to reparations, say the Namibian and German governments “stubbornly reject” the OGF joint statement and CA, in which they demand that both governments directly involve the descendants of the victims of the Ovaherero, Ovambandera and Nama genocide to resolve the issue of reparations.
“This leaves us no choice but to start looking for alternatives, which is what we have been doing all this time since they rejected the joint declaration.”she said.
According to the Ovambanderu Paramount Chief, the United Nations, which has obligations to the Ovaherero, Ovambanderu and Nama communities, should also help guide and promote “an unfinished chapter of the decolonization of Namibia to its logical conclusion”.
The OGF and CA are now turning their attention to sub-regional, continental and international organizations, both governmental and non-governmental, to further their cause and applaud the support of the Afro-American National Compensation Commission of Ovaherero’s claim for damages from the German government. .
Source: Rossa Primavera
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