A lawmaker in the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, has accused her country's government of using divide-and-rule tactics on the 1904–08 Nama/OvaHerero genocide reparation as the call for renegotiation intensified.

Sevim Dagdelen, a member of the Left Party who is in Namibia on a fact-finding mission, says Germany is doing everything to allegedly avoid responsibility for its colonial war crimes.