Herero Genocide

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Herero Genocide or well called also as Namaqua Genocide was a racial brutal campaign and life extortion that the government of German South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia) enforced against the Herero and Nama people. This very genocide is known to be the maiden genocide of the 20th century. This horrific killing took place between 1904 and 1907. Samuel Maharero was the one who efficiently led the herero people to revolt against the German colonial rule. The german general Lothar Von Trotha fought the herero people and defeated them in the battle of waterberg in the hot weathered month of august. Through the battle, the German general forced the herero people in to desert of Omaheke, where most of them died of thirst. Similarly in October,

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