NEW INVESTIGATION: On this day in 1893 in present-day Namibia, German colonial troops carried out a massacre at ||Nâ‡gâs, a settlement of the |Khowesin (Witbooi) Nama the colonists called Hornkranz. Working with descendants of survivors, we reconstructed the nearly erased site.
Our film, made in partnership with the Nama Traditional Leaders Association, foregrounds oral history to reconstruct the settlement using 3D modelling and forensic techniques to unearth the memory of one of the most traumatic colonial massacres and expulsions in Namibian history.
@ForensicArchi Right in time. x.com/aliabunimah/st…
@ForensicArchi The German tradition of dishonoring itself.
@ForensicArchi @jamforyou_ is there a German version?
@ForensicArchi You should make a movie about the Armenian Genocide, one of the ones that is still being denied by the perpetrators. Or the Circassian Genocide, also still denied. Or Holodomor, also still denied. Or Cambodian genocide, supported by Noam Chomsky.
@ForensicArchi "On the morning of April 12, 1893, over 150 German soldiers and African allies surprised the Witbooi at Hornkranz, the private residence of Hendrik Witbooi's private residence west of Rehoboth." Who were these African allies of the Germans? de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gefecht_v…
@ForensicArchi What did the Herero say about this attack on Hornkranz?