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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Caroline Kimeu in Nairobi

Call for port extension to be halted as genocide remains are found on Namibia’s Shark Island

A rocky landscape behind a stone wall
The campsite at Shark Island, where thousands of Herero and Nama people were killed. Photograph: Guy Oliver/Alamy

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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