Thomas Dworzak Genocide Museum, Kigali. German genocide of the Namibian Hereros.
Established in memorial of the 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis killed over 100 days in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the museum looks b
(...) ack to colonial misrule and in particular, the German genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples of present day Namibia from 1904-08. Crushing a rebellion against German colonial rule, Lieutenant-General Lothar von Trotha, wrote: "I believe that the nation as such should be annihilated, or, if this was not possible by tactical measures, have to be expelled from the country." Rwanda itself was a German colonial possession at the outbreak of World War One but fell to Belgian control in 1916. Kigali, Rwanda. 2016/03. © Thomas Dworzak | Magnum Photos
