Germany Recognizes Mass Killings in Colonial Namibia as Genocide

[Mark Kohut]

nice voluntary amount:
"Germany is asking for forgiveness and establishing a fund worth more than
a billion euros to support projects in the affected communities."
And as often happens, these things, claims and reparations can keep
happening; and demands for them can keep growing....one is never going to
get reparations claims without an official acknowledgment of the crime. See
South Africa, as
one example....


On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:25 PM Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Too little, too late. And, of course, the recognition does not imply a
> legal
> claim to reparations.
> As a foreign minister, I'd much prefer Oedipa.
>
> On Fri, 28 May 2021 08:06:08 -0400
>   Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Too little, too late?
> >
> > https://nyti.ms/3vtR89z
> >
> > In a Pynchonian side note, the decision was announced by
> >German foreign
> > minister Maas.
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>
>
> --
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>