While figures remain contested, according to conservative estimates, around 65,000 of 80,000 Herero people and at least 10,000 out of 20,000 Nama people were killed under German rule.

They say that the majority of the Herero people, about 65,000, were killed as were at least 10,000 Nama. Article continues below this ad ...

Historians say German Gen. Lothar von Trotha, who was sent to put down an uprising by the Herero people in 1904, instructed his troops to wipe out the entire tribe.

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibia marked the mass killings of Indigenous people in the early 20th century by former colonial ruler Germany with its first genocide remembrance day on Wednesday.

Between 1904 and 1908, tens of thousands of Herero and Nama people were massacred or forced into concentration camps and starved by German colonial forces under the command of Gen. Lothar von ...

Namibia has marked the mass killings of Indigenous people by former colonial ruler Germany in the early 20th century with its first genocide remembrance day. The day was declared a national holiday ...