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Namibia to mark German colonial genocide for first time with memorial day

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Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia marks genocide of more than 70,000 Africans .

Victims targeted because they refused to let the colonisers take their land and cattle.

Germany did not publicly acknowledge the mass slaughter between 1904 and 1908 .

Four years ago it formally recognised that German colonisers had committed the genocide.