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Staff Writer Reparations should not and cannot be dressed up as humanitarian aid, assistance or development cooperation, evading the assumption of due responsibilities. Notes the Special Rapporteur of the United Nations on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence, Fabián Salvioli, in his report to the United Nations General Assembly in July. Although the agreement between Germany and Namibia includes acknowledgement of the genocide against the Ovaherero and Nama and offers public apologies and development assistance as compensation, it was negotiated without the participation of the affected communities, it notes further. The Joint Declaration between Namibia and…