Namibian communities demand return of land in dispute over German genocide legacy
Windhoek, Namibia Reuters Namibian communities whose ancestors were massacred by German colonial forces and had their property seized more than a century ago are calling for fresh talks with Berlin to negotiate the return of ancestral land. Germany agreed in May 2021 to fund projects worth €1.1 billion over 30 years to make up for […]
SRI LANKA: TAMIL WOMEN FIGHT FOR LAND A DECADE AFTER WAR ENDS
RINA CHANDRAN, writing for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Sri Lanka…
Ten years after war ended, Sri Lankan Tamils may never get back land
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation Sri Lankan Government forces may never return swathes of land taken from ethnic Tamils during a decades-long civil war, land and human rights experts said on Friday, further impoverishing tens of thousands uprooted in the bloody conflict. Thousands of people were killed in the war, which ended in May, 2009, after […]