This is the bloodshed the UAE is funding in Sudan. And this is just a tip of the iceberg. Free Sudan 🇸🇩

🇩🇪 Germany committed one of the worst colonial crimes in African history — in Namibia. Long before the Holocaust, German colonial forces carried out a campaign of extermination against the Herero and Nama peoples in what was then German South West Africa, today Namibia. Germany had established colonial rule over the territory in the late 19th century. Land was seized, cattle were taken and Indigenous people were subjected to increasingly brutal colonial policies. In 1904, the Herero rose against German rule. Germany responded with a terror campaign designed to systematically destroy them. German commander General Lothar von Trotha issued an extermination order declaring that Herero people were to leave the territory or be killed. German forces drove thousands into the Omaheke Desert and blocked access to water, leaving people to die from thirst and starvation. Those who survived were forced into concentration and forced-labour camps, where many died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and brutal treatment. The few who survived were executed in cold blood. The Nama also rose against German colonial rule and were subjected to similar repression. Tens of thousands of Herero and Nama were killed. The scale of the genocide was staggering. German colonial forces and the conditions they deliberately created destroyed roughly 50% of the Herero people and over 80% of the Nama population. Human remains were also taken to Germany, where some were subjected to racist pseudo-scientific experiments intended to support theories of racial superiority. Germany has since returned some of these remains to Namibia. The Herero and Nama genocide must be remembered. Africa's colonial history did not begin with independence. It began with conquest, dispossession, forced labour and resistance — and Namibia carries the scars of one of Germany's darkest crimes.