The problem is that communities who continue to be most affected by the violent past have not been involved in negotiations.
A human skull on display in Berlin in 2018. Germany handed back human remains seized during the Namibia genocide from 1904 to 1908.
EPA-EFE/Hayoung Jeon
In mid-2015 the German Foreign Office after decades of denial seemingly acceded, in a very informal way, to labelling what had happened in South West Africa as genocide, is now backtracking.
Ovaherero and Ovambanderu attending a council for dialogue about the genocide of 1904 in Berlin.
EPA/Rainer Jensen
Representatives of Namibian communities affected by the 1904-1908 genocide have filed a class action against Germany in the US seeking reparations for atrocities committed by Imperial Germany