Will this generation throw stones on Geingob’s grave?
Anything that does not start does not end well. Also, if the house’s foundation is poorly compacted, the house will have cracks and will eventually collapse and the owner will be homeless. Ironically, this is exactly what is happening to the Nama and Ovaherero communities.
The end of the negotiations between the Namibian and German governments has left the two affected communities homeless again and it can be translated that this is the second genocide committed by both governments towards the siblings of victims and survivors of the first one.
Let me quote from the prayer of Paramount Chief Katjikururume Kutako: “The birds have nests to sleep in the wild, animals have holes to sleep in, but a human being has no dwelling place to sleep in”.
This goes to Dr Hage Geingob and Dr Zed Ngavirue: If you sign this no-deal agreement, be assured that you have left the Ovaherero and Nama communities homeless with no dwelling place.
The exclusion of the affected communities was the first mistake our president committed. Then again at ministerial level, the desk of negotiations was given to a person who is not a victim of genocide while both affected communities have qualified people who were also former ambassadors and high commissioners who were supposed to head that desk on behalf of their own people.
We needed people with passion and affection towards the negotiations, not just any Namibian to be appointed there.
Geingob has continuously ignored the call from the majority groups of victims who feel the process has been wrongly initiated, but the president was very ignorant and arrogant towards the victims and did not listen to them. His team concluded a raw deal that will have no substance and impact to Ovaherero and Nama people and the entire Namibian nation.
Fiction, not fact
The excuses from the Geingob administration that the right wing in Germany will be part of the regime after their election and we will end up with nothing is just fiction and there is no factual evidence to that effect. How do you base the reparations of your people on wrong political arguments or analysis until you rush into a ‘no deal’ that will satisfy the perpetrators, not the victims?
“Only the victims feel the pain, not the perpetrators neither the observers.”
Mr President, we the victims feel the pain and please hear our call and don’t sign that deal with Germany.
The genocide committed by Germany does not need right-wing or left-wing government to approve or to disapprove what their ancestors committed; we just need the German government to accept on behalf of every German citizen.
We need every German citizen to come to his/her senses and accept the wrong that took place then; even if it will take another 100 years to negotiate, the end result must make the victims’ decedents happy and the Namibian, African and world nations at large must be proud of the negotiations.
If Cabinet has resolved to signed the ‘no deal’ to the victims then our Namibian government has resolved to commit a second genocide.
The president has claimed that the Namibian government is representing the victims in this deal but now from what we are hearing and seeing, even the affected communities who have joined the negotiations table are not happy. In fact, Ngavirue has betrayed his own people and will go back to his ancestors with no answer why he settled for this ‘no deal’.
No deal
Even though the Germans have accepted that they committed genocide, that is still with reservations according to their minister of foreign affairs. We still have to hear what the apologies will sound like from the German president but even if these two are in place, the issue of reparations has not been dealt with. It remains a ‘no deal’ to the affected communities.
What is so difficult to declare that the negotiations did not reach consensus on the reparations part and thus is declared over until the next government will come in place? With this, my question remains: Will this money go to some other parts of Namibia and benefit the elites only?
We, the decedents of the victims of the 1904-1908 genocide, will not settle for anything less than N$1 trillion over the same period of 30 years. Will the Ovaherero and Nama generation throw stones on the tombstones of Geingob and Ngavirue or will they decorate it with flowers and roses? I rest my case.
*Vetaruhe Kandorozu is a retired politician.
The end of the negotiations between the Namibian and German governments has left the two affected communities homeless again and it can be translated that this is the second genocide committed by both governments towards the siblings of victims and survivors of the first one.
Let me quote from the prayer of Paramount Chief Katjikururume Kutako: “The birds have nests to sleep in the wild, animals have holes to sleep in, but a human being has no dwelling place to sleep in”.
This goes to Dr Hage Geingob and Dr Zed Ngavirue: If you sign this no-deal agreement, be assured that you have left the Ovaherero and Nama communities homeless with no dwelling place.
The exclusion of the affected communities was the first mistake our president committed. Then again at ministerial level, the desk of negotiations was given to a person who is not a victim of genocide while both affected communities have qualified people who were also former ambassadors and high commissioners who were supposed to head that desk on behalf of their own people.
We needed people with passion and affection towards the negotiations, not just any Namibian to be appointed there.
Geingob has continuously ignored the call from the majority groups of victims who feel the process has been wrongly initiated, but the president was very ignorant and arrogant towards the victims and did not listen to them. His team concluded a raw deal that will have no substance and impact to Ovaherero and Nama people and the entire Namibian nation.
Fiction, not fact
The excuses from the Geingob administration that the right wing in Germany will be part of the regime after their election and we will end up with nothing is just fiction and there is no factual evidence to that effect. How do you base the reparations of your people on wrong political arguments or analysis until you rush into a ‘no deal’ that will satisfy the perpetrators, not the victims?
“Only the victims feel the pain, not the perpetrators neither the observers.”
Mr President, we the victims feel the pain and please hear our call and don’t sign that deal with Germany.
The genocide committed by Germany does not need right-wing or left-wing government to approve or to disapprove what their ancestors committed; we just need the German government to accept on behalf of every German citizen.
We need every German citizen to come to his/her senses and accept the wrong that took place then; even if it will take another 100 years to negotiate, the end result must make the victims’ decedents happy and the Namibian, African and world nations at large must be proud of the negotiations.
If Cabinet has resolved to signed the ‘no deal’ to the victims then our Namibian government has resolved to commit a second genocide.
The president has claimed that the Namibian government is representing the victims in this deal but now from what we are hearing and seeing, even the affected communities who have joined the negotiations table are not happy. In fact, Ngavirue has betrayed his own people and will go back to his ancestors with no answer why he settled for this ‘no deal’.
No deal
Even though the Germans have accepted that they committed genocide, that is still with reservations according to their minister of foreign affairs. We still have to hear what the apologies will sound like from the German president but even if these two are in place, the issue of reparations has not been dealt with. It remains a ‘no deal’ to the affected communities.
What is so difficult to declare that the negotiations did not reach consensus on the reparations part and thus is declared over until the next government will come in place? With this, my question remains: Will this money go to some other parts of Namibia and benefit the elites only?
We, the decedents of the victims of the 1904-1908 genocide, will not settle for anything less than N$1 trillion over the same period of 30 years. Will the Ovaherero and Nama generation throw stones on the tombstones of Geingob and Ngavirue or will they decorate it with flowers and roses? I rest my case.
*Vetaruhe Kandorozu is a retired politician.
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