Retired SWANU MP Usutuaije Maamberua has reiterated the call to enact a Genocide Memory Law to recognize the 1904-1908 genocide victims formally.

Should it come to fruition one day, the Genocide Memory Law will deem actions that will be found in the denial of the genocide as being against the public interest and must be criminalized.

Maamberua also noted that the Law will address the question of who should take care of genocide memorial sites on private property as well as provide for the establishment of a Museum of Genocide Memory.

"Any deliberately pro-fascism, genocide denial or pro-German Reich demonstration displays in support of genocide or similar acts, will attract fines. The genocide memory law will promote the exhumation of the remains of the genocide victims for a dignified befitting, burial. It will facilitate the creation of a national census, a map of graves, and a DNA bank. The genocide memory law will provide automatic eligibility for Namibian citizenships to the descendants of members of the genocide, who are in the diaspora as a result of the war of genocide."

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Celma Ndhikwa