{"id":254758,"date":"2019-03-09T07:14:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=254758"},"modified":"2019-03-09T10:23:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T08:23:55","slug":"rukoro-declares-war-on-german-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=254758","title":{"rendered":"Rukoro declares war on German authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rukoro-declares-war-on-German-authorities.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-254796\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rukoro-declares-war-on-German-authorities.png\" alt=\"Rukoro declares war on German authorities\" width=\"778\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rukoro-declares-war-on-German-authorities.png 778w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rukoro-declares-war-on-German-authorities-300x241.png 300w, https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Rukoro-declares-war-on-German-authorities-768x618.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Staff Reporter<\/p>\n<p>The Paramount Chief of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority intends to appeal against the dismissal of the Herero and Nama lawsuit to claim damages from Germany.<br \/>\nA New York District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled that claims by descendants of the Herero and Nama tribes over Germany\u2019s role in what some historians call the twentieth century\u2019s first genocide could not proceed in her jurisdiction.<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nRukoro said after the ruling on Wednesday that the District Judge made fundamental errors in her analysis and that the OTA would ensure the decision was reversed on appeal.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have directed our lawyers in New York to proceed with the appeal process immediately. We intend to have our day in court.<br \/>\nHe said the OTA lawyers will appeal through the U.S. appeals court and if they fail in their efforts the Paramount Chief promised to take their appeal to that country\u2019s Supreme Court.<br \/>\nRukors said the war the OTA have declared against the German authorities was just starting. He said they have the willpower, determination and capacity to intensify the struggle diplomatically and politically.<br \/>\nThe OTA claims that thousands of Herero and Nama were slaughtered, left to starve or died in concentration camps from 1904 to 1908, when Namibia was a German colony.<br \/>\nA 1985 United Nations report called the uneven war between the German colonial forces and the rebelling Hereros and Namas a massacre and genocide.<br \/>\nIn recent years Germany acknowledged responsibility for the war but continues to avoid an official apology to ward off compensation claims.<br \/>\nAccording to a Reuters report the German foreign ministry said the U.S. court decision reinforces Germany\u2019s position that it is immune from claims by descendants of the Namas and Hereros under U.S. jurisdiction.<br \/>\nThe Namibian and German governments have been locked in negotiations on the subject of reparations for many years. The discussions are aimed at finding a common position on Germany\u2019s colonial past.<br \/>\nGermany recently repatriated several skulls and other remains of massacred tribes-people used in the colonial era back to Namibia.<br \/>\nGermany, which lost all its colonial territories after World War One, was the third biggest colonial power after Britain and France.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter The Paramount Chief of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority intends to appeal against the dismissal of the Herero and Nama lawsuit to claim damages from Germany. A New York District Judge Laura Taylor Swain ruled that claims by descendants of the Herero and Nama tribes over Germany\u2019s role in what some historians call the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":254796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rukoro declares war on German authorities - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Paramount Chief of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority intends to appeal against the dismissal of the Herero and Nama lawsuit to claim damages from\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=254758\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rukoro declares war on German authorities - 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