Germany moves to atone for 'forgotten genocide' in Namibia

Berlin discusses possible reparation payments over massacre of tens of thousands of people in early years of 20th centuryIt has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia. For more than a century the atrocities have been largely forgotten in Europe, and often in much of Africa too.Now a series of events – and a policy U-tu