"Herero and Namaqua Genocide was a campaign of racial extermination and collective punishment that the government of German South-West Africa (modern-day Namibia) undertook against the Herero and Nama people. It is considered to have been the first genocide of the 20th century. It took place between 1904 and 1907 during the Herero Wars.On 12 January 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero, rebelled against German colonial rule."@en . . . .