‘The government’s nationalisation of memory meant that the “Ovaherero and Nama genocide” became known anachronistically as the “Namibian genocide”.’

eyal weizman reports from Namibia: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Some unscrupulous agent has uploaded a PDF of the sold-out “Conflict Shoreline”, in which eyal weizman of Forensic Architecture & photographer Fazal Sheikh explore the Negev Desert in Israel as a case study for the entanglement of climate change & colonization.
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2/ Η διασυνοριακή έρευνα του Solomon για το ναυάγιο της Πύλου σε συνεργασία με την ερευνητική ομάδα Forensis, τη γερμανική δημόσια τηλεόραση StrgF/ARD, και τη βρετανική εφημερίδα The Guardian βρίσκεται στη βραχεία λίστα στην κατηγορία Migration Award. europeanpressprize.com/article/the-py…

5/ For the incredible work by Forensis researchers see here: counter-investigations.org/investigation/…

4/ Watch the STRG_F ARD/Funk (Germany) documentary here: youtube.com/watch?v=x_yLcg…

3/ For Solomon's (Greece) report check here: wearesolomon.com/mag/format/inv…

2/ Like many of the shortlisted projects, our investigation was a joint cross-border collaboration of journalists & outlets.

Our report for the The Guardian (UK) w/ Katy Fallon Lydia Emmanouilidou and Julian Busch can be read here: theguardian.com/global-develop…

Our joint investigation into the Pylos shipwreck is shortlisted for the 2024 European Press Prize in the migration category.

Nearly a year after the greatest tragedy ever recorded in the Med, victims and their families are waiting for justice

europeanpressprize.com/article/the-py…

Forensic Architecture Forensis + new report on Shark Island death camp, where 1000s were murdered. A ‘green hydrogen’ development, supported by DE, threatens to destroy it and nearby mass graves. Based on digital research, fieldwork, archival materials and testimonies of descendants.
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On that day in 1893 German Schutztruppe massacred in and destroyed Hornkranz. @forensicarchi + Forensis reconstructed with the Nama Traditional Leaders Association, the first act of genocide that culminated in the genocidal war of 1904-1908.
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On DE’s colonial genocide of the Ovaherero and Nama and the way its memory/forgetting affects Germany’s policy regarding the genocide in Gaza, and the memory of the holocaust. Sent from Windhoek and published on 12 April on the genocide’s anniversary. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

‘The German government is yet to fully atone for the genocide it committed on Namibian soil.’
– President Hage Geingob, 13 January.

Online early: eyal weizman reports from Namibia on Nama and Ovaherero calls for not just recognition but reparations.
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🔴Tagesspiegel | Anwälte der European Legal Support Center (ELSC), Law for Palestine und das Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy hatten am Freitag mitgeteilt, sie hätten einen Eilantrag gegen die deutsche Regierung gestellt, um die Ausfuhr von Kriegswaffen nach Israel zu…

Our+Forensis’s new map and report, based on digital research and fieldwork, along with archival materials and testimonies of descendants of Shark Island’s victims, are part of a larger investigation to be released soon. Read full report here: staging.forensic-architecture.org/wp-content/upl…

This violent colonial history binds Germany to the Nama & Ovaherero people. But today, a major ‘green hydrogen’ development - enthusiastically supported by Germany - threatens to obliterate Shark Island & nearby colonial-era mass graves, erasing that vital heritage.

Yesterday in Namibia activists marked the anniversary of an 1893 massacre by German colonial troops, which preceded the 1904-8 genocidal war against the Nama & Ovaherero. Today FA+Forensis present new findings on Shark Island death camp in Lüderitz, where 1000s were murdered.

Read eyal weizman's latest article in the London Review of Books, out today, drawing historical connections between the Nama and Ovaherero genocide, the genocide in Gaza, and the Holocaust: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Our research, part of a wider project entitled ‘German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Infrastructure of Genocide’ conducted w/Forensis, supports the Nama descendants’ demands for access to and commemoration of their sites of cultural heritage. Read more: forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…

Descendants consider the 1893 attack, in which German troops raided homes and slaughtered around 80 women and children, to be the first act of genocide enacted against the Nama during the colonial campaign that would later culminate in the genocidal war of 1904-1908.