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Germany debates how to address 120-year-old atrocities in Namibia
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German lawmakers in the Bundestag held a highly charged debate over how the country should formally address and provide restitution for the 1904–1908 colonial-era genocide of the OvaHerero and Nama peoples in present-day Namibia. Although the German government politically recognized the atrocities as a genocide in 2021, parliament has yet to pass a formal binding resolution, and the country's…