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PRIME minister Saara Kuugongwelwa-Amadhila says it is commendable that some people are prepared to tell their governments to do more for humanity.
She was referring to Sevim Dagdelen, the spokesperson of the Left Party in the German Bundestag.
Dagdelen yesterday paid the prime minister a courtesy visit as part of her weeklong visit to Namibia.
“It is very nice to hear there are people in government, as there are those outside in those countries, where we may have issues that we are discussing and have not been able to find common ground, who are prepared to say to their governments ‘we can do more, and we would not lose anything.
“But we can gain more as members of the human race if we address this issue,” Kuugongwelwa-Amadhila said in reference to Dagdelen, who has been pushing for her government to recognise its colonial crimes in Namibia. Dagdelen supports Namibia’s demands for Germany to recognise the genocide and pay adequate reparations.
“For many years I have been advocating the recognition of German colonial crimes and decolonisation of German foreign policy.
“And it is not only regarding Namibia or the colonial past of Germany in Africa, it is also in Asia, for example in China, where German colonisation was doing the same crime,” said the German lawmaker.
Dagdelen, who also met with National Assembly speaker Peter Katjavivi, said she is deeply ashamed that the German government still refuses to truly recognise the atrocities committed against the Nama and Ovaherero people between 1904 and 1908.
The leader of the National Unity Democratic Organisation, Esther Muinjangue, also commended Dagdelen’s support.
“For me personally, even if it’s one person, it means a lot, because mobilisation does not start with a hundred people. It starts with one person, serving as a catalyst, making others start thinking differently,” Muinjangue said.
“I do appreciate her thinking, and of course coming from a member of parliament there it means a lot to me personally. I hope we will hear more members of parliament from the German Bundestag also expressing themselves.”
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