{"id":253577,"date":"2019-03-07T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=253577"},"modified":"2019-03-07T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T07:39:00","slug":"namibian-genocide-lawsuit-against-germany-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=253577","title":{"rendered":"Namibian genocide lawsuit against Germany dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253591\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 800px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Namibian-genocide-lawsuit-against-Germany-dismissed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253591\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Namibian-genocide-lawsuit-against-Germany-dismissed.jpg\" alt=\"Namibian genocide lawsuit against Germany dismissed\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Namibian-genocide-lawsuit-against-Germany-dismissed.jpg 800w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Namibian-genocide-lawsuit-against-Germany-dismissed-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Namibian-genocide-lawsuit-against-Germany-dismissed-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured: Paramount Chief Vekuii Rukoro and an OTA delegation in front of U.S. District Court in New York. Photo: Contributed Source:\u00a0reuters.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>THE Ovaherero reparation claims spearheaded by the paramount chief of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA) suffered a severe setback when a US court in New York declared Germany immune to claims by descendants of Herero and Nama tribes.<br \/>\nA U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to require Germany to pay damages over genocide and property seizures by colonists in what is now Namibia more than\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">a century ago.<br \/>\nU.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said Germany was immune from claims by descendants of the Herero and Nama tribes, depriving her of jurisdiction over its role in what some historians have called the 20th century\u2019s first genocide.<br \/>\nKenneth McCallion, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said he will discuss his clients\u2019 legal options with them.<br \/>\nThe case is unrelated to Germany\u2019s atonement for its role in the Holocaust during World War Two, and its payment of more than US$70 billion to survivors and others, according to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.<br \/>\nAccording to the plaintiffs, thousands of Herero and Nama were slaughtered, left to starve or died at concentration camps from 1904 to 1908, when Namibia was known as South-West Africa, after the tribes rebelled against German rule.<br \/>\nA 1985 United Nations report called the \u201cmassacre\u201d of Hereros a genocide, and Germany has in recent years negotiated with the Namibian Government over the claims.<br \/>\nThe plaintiffs said Germany was not shielded by the federal Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act because some of its plunder found its way to Manhattan, triggering exceptions covering commercial activity and improper \u201ctakings.\u201d<br \/>\nThe OTA alleged that misappropriated funds were used to buy buildings housing Germany\u2019s consulate general and U.N. mission, while skulls and other human remains were sent to the American Museum of Natural History, and a written account of the genocide went to the New York Public Library.<br \/>\nSwain, however, said the exceptions to sovereign immunity were narrow, and the plaintiffs\u2019 relatively expansive view could subject Germany to liability for holding cultural programs or conducting boiler repairs at its buildings.<br \/>\nThe judge also said the transfers of human remains and the account of the genocide bore no \u201cdirect\u201d or \u201cimmediate\u201d connection to Germany\u2019s activities in south western Africa.<br \/>\nJeffrey Harris, a lawyer for Germany, in an interview said the decision \u201cshould stand up if there is an appeal. It says the very specific requirements that would allow a foreign sovereign such as Germany to be sued in the United States were not met.\u201d<br \/>\n(The case is Rukoro et al v Federal Republic of Germany, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 17-00062.)<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter THE Ovaherero reparation claims spearheaded by the paramount chief of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA) suffered a severe setback when a US court in New York declared Germany immune to claims by descendants of Herero and Nama tribes. 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