Monument to independence in the Namibian capital, Windhoek. The statue depicts two Namibians standin
Monument to independence in the Namibian capital, Windhoek. The statue depicts two Namibians standing proudly with broken shackles; the plinth depicts massacres from the colonial era.The site where the monument now stands was once home to the Reiterdenkmal, a statue of a German soldier on horseback, erected to memorialize the colonial solders who fought in the Herero Wars of the 1900s. Always controversial, it was finally removed from public display in 2014. There were, of course, those who insisted it was part of their heritage and that removing it was a blow to history, but in their end, their arguments for why a monument to genocide should remain proved unconvincing. -- source link
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