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.

Affected communities of the 1904-1908 genocide committed by German forces against the Nama, Ovaherero, and Ovambanderu people have called for the speedy promulgation of the National Genocide Remembrance Day.

This call was made during the commemoration in the capital today.

Retired SWANU MP Usutuaije Maamberua had in 2016 proposed that May 28 be declared National Genocide Remembrance Day, as it was on that day that the genocide officially ended when all concentration camps in Namibia were ordered to close in 1908.