West Badin High

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Today’s picture is of the 1953 graduating class of West Badin High School. Standing (Left to right): Willie J. Kelley, Roger Prince, Eddie Hudson, Claude Kirk, Beulah Gaines Edwards, and Cleveland Colson. Sitting: Georgia Simon, Edith J. Brown, Naomi Crawford, Mae Frances McPhail {Valedictorian}, Walillian Smith {Salutatorian}, Ronald Barber, and Celia Mae Knight. {From the June 1953 edition of the Badin Carolinian}

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07/03/2021

Happy Independence Day West Badin

05/30/2021

Retribution for ancestors

1904-1908 Namibia Genocide : German Govt begs for Namibian's forgiveness, promises a fund of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion).
."No self-respecting African will accept such an insult in this day and age,Says Traditional Chief

Germany for the first time on Friday recognised it had committed genocide in Namibia during its colonial occupation, with Berlin promising financial support worth more than one billion euros to aid projects in the African nation.

German colonial settlers killed tens of thousands of indigenous Herero and Nama people in 1904-1908 massacres—labelled the first genocide of the 20 century by historians—poisoning relations between Namibia and Germany for years.

“In light of the historical and moral responsibility of Germany, we will ask forgiveness from Namibia and the victims’ descendants” for the “atrocities” committed, Maas said.
In a “gesture to recognise the immense suffering inflicted on the victims”, the country will support the “reconstruction and the development” of Namibia via a financial programme of 1.1 billion euros ($1.34 billion), he said.

In the Battle of Waterberg in August 1904 around 80,000 Herero, including women and children, fled and were pursued by German troops across what is now known as the Kalahari Desert. Only 15,000 survived.

At least 60,000 Hereros and around 10,000 Namas were killed between 1904 and 1908.

But in an effort to ease reconciliation, in 2018 Germany returned the bones of members of the Herero and Nama tribes, with the then foreign minister Michelle Muentefering asking for “forgiveness from the bottom of my heart”.

But Herero paramount chief Vekuii Rukoro rejected as insulting a deal agreed by the German and Namibian governments because it did not include payment of reparations.

"That's a black cat in the bag instead of reparations for a crime against humanity," Rukoro told Reuters, referring to a German commitment to fund 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) of reconstruction and development projects in Namibia.

"No self-respecting African will accept such an insult in this day and age from a so-called civilized European nation."

German soldiers killed some 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama people in a 1904-1908 campaign after a revolt against land seizures by colonists in what historians and the United Nations have long called the first genocide of the 20th century.

Source: Reuters/AFB

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