{"id":5248,"date":"2004-08-17T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2004-08-17T18:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:47:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:47:55","slug":"namibia-marks-century-old-massacre-amid-calls-for-german-compensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/17\/namibia-marks-century-old-massacre-amid-calls-for-german-compensation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia Marks Century-Old Massacre Amid Calls for German Compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/12\/international\/africa\/12namibia.html\">Namibia Marks Century-Old Massacre Amid Calls for German Compensation<\/a><br \/>\nThe New York Times<br \/>\nAugust 12, 2004<br \/>\nBy REUTERS <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BERLIN, Aug. 11 &#8211; A German minister left for Namibia on Wednesday amid calls by Namibia&#8217;s government and human rights advocates for Germany to pay compensation for a massacre of Herero tribesmen in 1904 by its colonial troops. <\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s development minister, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, will attend a ceremony in Okakarara on Saturday marking the 100th anniversary of a revolt by the Herero people in southwest Africa against Kaiser Wilhelm&#8217;s troops in which 65,000 of the 80,000 Hereros died. <\/p>\n<p>About 10,000 members of the Nama tribe were also killed in the massacre, which some historians call the first genocide of the 20th century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia Marks Century-Old Massacre Amid Calls for German Compensation The New York Times August 12, 2004 By REUTERS BERLIN, Aug. 11 &#8211; A German minister left for Namibia on Wednesday amid calls by Namibia&#8217;s&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-slavery-and-reparations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1mE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}