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Call for port extension to be halted as genocide remains are found on Namibia’s Shark Island
Researchers say more bodies of Herero and Nama people from early 20th century concentration camp could be in waters around port
The Namibian authorities are being urged to halt plans to extend a port on the Shark Island peninsula after the discovery of unmarked graves and artefacts relating to the Herero and Nama genocide.
Forensic Architecture, a non-profit research agency, said it had located sites of executions, forced labour, imprisonment and sexual violence that occurred when the island was used by the German empire as a concentration camp between 1905 and 1907.
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