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But many Ovaherero and Nama campaigners say the deal is an insult to their ancestors' memory and that they were unfairly excluded from the negotiating table.

Many campaigners would like to see the German government buy back ancestral lands now in the hands of the German-speaking community, and return them to the Ovaherero and Nama descendants.

Historians point out the irony of Germany hitherto refusing to pay reparations, because prior to the genocide, Germany itself extracted its own so-called reparations from Ovaherero and Nama people who had fought back against the colonisers.

The victims, primarily from Ovaherero and Nama communities, were targeted because they refused to let the colonisers take their land and cattle.

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