24 February 2024
Namibia’s Minister of Justice Yvonne Dausab on Friday accused Germany of committing the first genocide in the 20th century, reports MEM.
This came in a speech delivered by Dausab on behalf of Namibia during hearings held by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, to discuss the legal consequences arising from Israel’s policies and practices in the occupied Palestinian territories.
At the beginning of her speech, Dausab quoted a statement by the late Namibian President Hage Geingob, who died at the beginning of this month, expressing: “No peace-loving human being can ignore the carnage waged against Palestinians in Gaza.”
The minister stated: “I stand before you as a representative of a country where Germany brutally carried out the first genocide of the 20th century against the Herero and the Nama peoples, a country that is known only too well the pain and suffering of occupation, colonialism, systematic discrimination, apartheid and their entrenched consequences. It is because of this history that Namibia considers it a moral duty and sacred responsibility to appear before this court on the question of the indefensible occupation of Palestine by Israel.”
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