内容摘要：China has swiftly expanded its space programmes and embarked on several landmark missions in recent years, including landing robots on the

China has swiftly expanded its space programmes and embarked on several landmark missions in recent years, including landing robots on the

“We must remain committed that as a nation, we shall soldier on until the ultimate conclusion is reached,” she said.For its part, Germany released a statement earlier this week, reiterating that it “acknowledges Germany’s moral and political responsibility [for the killings] and emphasises the importance of reconciliation”.

Berlin has previously pledged more than one billion euros ($1bn) in development aid over 30 years to benefit the descendants of the two targeted tribes, while stressing the funding should not be seen as payment of reparations.No agreement has been signed and Herero and Nama descendants have said they were excluded from the talks.At Wednesday’s commemoration, candles were lit in honour of the victims and a minute of silence was followed by songs and speeches.

The memorial was attended by about 1,000 people, including the German ambassador to Namibia.‘Extermination order’

The Herero tribe revolted against German colonisers in January 1904, with the smaller Nama tribe joining the next year.

The crackdown by German troops sent tens of thousands of people fleeing towards neighbouring Botswana.“We lost everything, the families. We don’t have anywhere else to go, the property has gone,” Mohammed Tanko, a local, told Al Jazeera. “We lost at least 15 from this house.”

Another survivor said: “I escaped with only my nightdress. Right now, I can’t even identify where our home used to be.”“The grim task of recovering bodies and what little the residents and victims of this disaster can is what’s been going on since we arrived here in the early afternoon,” said Idris, standing in front of a dilapidated house as children and adults alike dig for belongings and bodies.

“When we arrived here, we were told by locals that when the floodwaters started coming in Mokwa, more bodies were flowing in from more villages upstream and so this used to be where homes were. Several homes, over 300 of them, were washed away or completely destroyed by the flood waters,” said Idris, as clothes and residents’ other belongings lied scattered in piles across the ground.Residents believe that the floods may have been caused by “a bigger problem upstream, maybe a dam burst, but up to now officials are not confirming that”, said Idris. “But the amount of water that came into this community is so much that nobody had any time to prepare to evacuate.”