It is evidently clear that the German and, Namibian Governments, were playing mind games/ psychological.
It is evidently clear that the German and, Namibian Governments, were playing mind games/ psychological deception with the Ovaherero/Nama Genocide/Reparations negotiations for claims against Germany, and miscalculated the Ovaherero/ Nama resolve and, determination to principally and, effectively challenge Germany, to acknowledge it's historic guilt, having committed Genocide against the Ovaherero/Nama Nations (1904/08) by General Von Trotha's "Vernichtung'Befels " respectively , against the Ovaherero/ Nama Nations , waged genocidal wars of aggression against the indigenous peoples of the than German South West Africa.
Though Imperial Germany was defeated in the WW1 in 1914/15, the wars of "Vernichtung'Befels " never ended, since no "Treaty of surrender or an Armistice "were concluded, so the Imperial German Genocidal wars of aggression against the Ovaherero/ Nama Nations , it's legacy of ancestral dispossession of land , wealth and, heritage continues to date. The physical/psychological occupation by Imperial German descendants of the Ovaherero/ Nama ancestral land, wealth and heritage dispossessions, with the protection of the current Namibian Government, protecting and, shielding German "private property rights" enshrined in the Namibian Constitution, properties dispossessed from indigenous people, at the barrel of the gun, with the current Government, denying the " right of return, of " the Ovaherero/ Nama Nations , and all other dispossessed indigenous people, to their ancestral heritage, land, and wealth, a crime perpetually being committed.
It however be made clear, that the Government of the day in Namibia has demonstrated for the past 31years of governance, it's ugly tribal elitist face, of the dominant Owambo Tribal Political party Swapo, which is historically from Owamboland, and know little if at all about Ovaherero/Nama Genocide, since they where never affected, thus exhibiting "cavalier, nonchalant elitist tribal bias" in leading the negotiations with Germany, squandering opportunities to effectively challenge Germany, to acknowledge and, account for it's historic guilt and, effect Reparations in line with the prescriptions of Reparation Law.
The time has arrived for the affected Ovaherero/ Nama Nations to burry their differences strive for a "skilled professional team" with a unified mandate to resolve the Ovaherero/ Nama Nations Genocide and, Reparations conundrum with Germany. These communities have the best highly motivated, intellectuals and, academicians better placed to speak for their own communities, need no outsiders to represent the Ovaherero / Nama Nations against Germany , but themselves.
Written By Ben Karamata ( Diplomat/Social Scientist/International law Adherent)
Well written and full of insight. Thank Mr Ben Karamata.
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