Talk:Herero Wars

100,000???
The figures are highly disputed. There had never been a census in South West Africa before and it is not clear if there even were 100,000 Hereros ever before. After all, the most of them died of thirst after fleeing into the Kalahari desert, not by shooting.

There is a tendency of giving the most dramatic figures possible in order to gain public interest or compensation. However in an encyclopedic article which should be considered as somewhat serious and not just propaganda it should be noted at least, that the number of 100,000 dead ist the highest figure of all estimates. In some other herero-related wikipedia articles the number of death ranges between 15,000 and 100,000 with a number of 60,000 seen as the most likely.

Britain and Imperial Germany were colonial competitors in Africa and Britain had an interest of accusing German governing as being brutal and incompetent. Finally the German colonies were handed to the allies after WW1.

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 * The Guardian article linked at the bottom of this one claims 65,000, but it doesn't cite a source for that number either. --Delirium 03:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

good edits except Cattle are Grazers, the people who look after them are Graziersping 07:55, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)