Germany returns skulls of Ancestors to Namibia
Germany repatriated to Namibia Tuesday 20 African skulls taken from the area about a century ago when it was under its colonial rule and sent to Germany for questionable racial studies.
A skull from Germany on display in the city of Windhoek, Namibia, Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011. With warriors on horseback and teary-eyed women ululating their joy, hundreds of Namibians on Tuesday welcomed home the skulls of ancestors taken to Germany for racist experiments more than a century ago. The skulls are "testimony to the horrors of colonialism and German cruelty against our people," Prime Minister Nahas Angula said at an airport ceremony, "The Namibian nation accepts these mortal remains as a symbolic closure of a tragic chapter."
This handout picture from the National Archives of Namibia, taken during the 1904-1908 war of Germany against Herero and Nama in Namibia. A Namibian delegation left for Germany on September 25, 2011 to reclaim about 20 human skulls used by colonial-era scientists.
A member of a Namibian delegation attends the hand-over ceremony of 20 skulls taken from Namibia. A century after colonial German authorities seized the remains of Africans for racial experiments, 20 skulls have returned to Namibia with military honours to be laid in state at parliament.
Skulls of Ovaherero and Nama people are displayed during a service attended by representatives of the tribes from Namibia in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. About 60 Ovaherero and Nama traditional leaders and other officials arrived in Berlin, Germany to return about 20 skulls believed to be of Ovaherero and Nama people, killed by the then-German colonial forces during the resistance war in Namibia between 1904 and 1908.
Members of a delegation from Namibia stand over 20 skulls, many of them in boxes draped under Namibian flags, at the conclusion of a ceremony at Charite hospital to repatriate the skulls.Germany repatriated to Namibia Tuesday 20 African skulls taken from the area about a century ago when it was under its colonial rule and sent to Germany for questionable racial studies.
Riders on horse back escort the small truck that is transporting skulls of ancestors recently returned from Germany, from the airport to be put on display in the city of Windhoek, Namibia, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. With teary-eyed women ululating their joy, some hundreds of Namibians on Tuesday welcomed home the skulls of Namibian people who were taken to Germany for racist experiments more than a century ago.
People gather around the airplane that arrived carrying skulls from Germany at the airport on the outskirts of the city of Windhoek, Namibia, Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011. Namibian tribal leaders took possession Friday of the skulls of their countrymen, and returned to Windhoek airport in Namibia.
Namibian tribal members sit with flag draped skulls upon their arrival from Germany at the airport on the outskirts of the city of Windhoek, Namibia.
The skulls are from Herero and Nama tribespeople taken by German colonial forces between 1904 and 1908, when the Germans violently suppressed an uprising in what was then German Southwest Africa, which is today's Namibia.
One of 20 skulls to be taken possession of by a delegation from Namibia stands on display at a ceremony at Charite hospital on September 30, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
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