Germany returns skulls of Namibian victims

Skulls and other remains of massacred tribespeople used in the colonial era for experiments to push claims of European racial superiority were handed over by Germany to Namibia at a church ceremony in Berlin yesterday.

In what historians call the first genocide of the 20th century, soldiers of Kaiser Wilhelm slaughtered about 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people between 1904 and 1908. The remains will be taken to Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, tomorrow, where rituals will be carried out.