Germany’s president on Wednesday (Nov.01) apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania as he met descendants of Chief Songea Mbano executed for leading a revolt.<\/p>\n
In Songea, southwestern Tanzania, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier vowed to seek answers to questions regarding the German East Africa era. The\u00a0German East Africa was a colony part of the German possessions. It covered todays’ Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi existed from 1885 until the end of World War I.<\/p>\n
“My dear family (of Songea, ed.), I mourn with you for Chief Songea, and for all the others who were executed. I wish to pay my respects to the victims of the German colonial rule. And as German President I would like to ask for forgiveness for what Germans did to your ancestors here,” Steinmeier said.<\/p>\n
He added that Mbano was \u201ca brave leader\u201d in the rebellion.<\/p>\n
“I beg your forgiveness and I would like to assure you that we Germans will search with you for answers to the open, unanswered, outstanding questions that give you no peace.”<\/p>\n
Steinmeier laid a rose at Chief Songea Mbano’s grave and a wreath at a mass grave of 66 other fighters in the Maji Maji uprising, German news agency dpa reported.<\/p>\n
Up to 300,000 people are believed to have died during the Maji Maji rebellion between 1905 and 1907.<\/p>\n
Skulls brought back to Germany could include that of chief Mbano. Steinmeir has vowed to try to find it,\u00a0according to remarks released by his office. \u201cUnfortunately, I just can’t promise you that we will be successful,\u201d because identifying human remains is difficult even with scientific expertise, he added.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Tanzania’s then-government said it was considering legal action to seek compensation from Germany for the people who allegedly were starved, tortured and killed by German forces.<\/p>\n
Germany in 2021 announced an agreement with Namibia, another country where it was once the colonial ruler, to recognize colonial-era massacres of tens of thousands of people there as genocide and provide funding to help the communities affected. But the accord stopped short of formal reparations.<\/p>\n
That agreement, which some groups representing the Herero and Nama people aren’t happy with, has yet to be formally signed off on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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