And then....went on to create a war to end all wars in Europe, with the loss of millions of lives in 1914...to again repeat the mayhem soon after, in a repeat performance a second time with similar losses in 1939.

I'm ashamed to say that I had never heard of this genocide. It makes for harrowing reading. Whatever the outcome of the legal case, I hope it gets more international acknowledgement.

Colonial Africa was an horrific place for the native peoples. White European rulers have a lot of blood on their hands. Yet at the time, concentration camps were not new. It was standard policy of white colonial powers - from the US to Asia - to use concentration camps as a weapon of war against native peoples. It was also standard policy in wars between white European powers - e.g. tens of thousands of Boer civilians died in British concentration camps - and as a means of vanquishing radical opponents - e.g. the gulags of Czarist Russia and the later Soviet Union.

International law needs to be eternally vigilant against the use of internment as a political weapon.

diver dan

Germany did not 'create' WWI. That's victor's rhetoric. The reasons are complex, but much of the blame for WWI lies with the insane system of political-military alliances that meant that any flare-up between European states drew all parties into inevitable conflict. Europe was a basket case of gung-ho military daring-do between rival imperial powers.

1904? seriously? Who's left to prosecute from a time before the Geneva convention was even thought of. What about the 120 innocent Germans murdered that started the conflict?

Next, suing the Germans for WW2, suing the boers for the battle of blood river, or suing the Romans for crucifying Christ?

Africa was a wonderful place before those evil racist white people got there. All of the Africans lived in peace with each other like little hobbits. There as no crime, no wars, no slavery, no cannibalism, no head hunting, no human sacrifices, no starvation, and no epidemics. All of these evil things were all invented by white people.

All Africans lived in harmony with nature and did not use fossil fuels. Fossil fuels were invented by those evil racist white people, the very ones who are destroying the planet through global warming. African civilisation was highly advanced before those evil white people came, and Africans were world leaders in technology, science, medicine, education, and social advancement. Every African country had a space exploration program. Feminism was invented in Africa, and of course, all African tribes allowed homosexual marriage. African economies were all socialist, and Africans everywhere were known for their extreme tolerance of outsiders, especially refugees.

Asian and Arab people were noted for their good relations with African people, and everybody was happy until the whites came along.

White people invented racism, slavery, capitalism, war, and every other evil on the planet. In Australia, they even stole babies from the breasts of black mothers. In addition, this despicable race has contributed absolutely nothing to the advancement of the human race. The reason why Africa is so dysfunctional is because white people made it that way. It's all the white guys fault.

What the world needs to do, is to dilute this evil white race right out of existence through immigration. The world will be a better place when this race of genocidal racists is exterminated. Fortunately, those plans are now well advanced in every white homeland.

LEGO

Africa before European imperialism was no more or less wonderful than any other continent.

However, apart from Egypt and Carthage, Europeans have little to no knowledge of African history. The ancient kingdoms of Ethiopia, Mali, Zimbabwe and Kongo were typically advanced civilisations that rose and fell over time and had their own rich histories. For millennia, pan-African trade flourished along the rivers and coastal regions and with India, the Far East and also with parts of Europe, especially Ireland and Spain. As a result of this trade, they enjoyed many of the mod-cons of the day, or at least the wealthy did.

The slave trade destroyed much of this commercial trade, as travel within the continent became too dangerous, except for Europeans, and strongly contributed to the collapse of these civilisations. (Even so, there is evidence that the Kongo kings, for example, collaborated with the slavers in order to get rid of radicals and undesirables.)

Unfortunately, the problems that plague the African continent today DO stem largely from European conquest and colonialism - also Muslim conquest. So much so, that it is very hard to extricate the European/Muslim imperial legacy from current problems that are traditionally African.

Perhaps over time, Europeans may come to learn more about the real Africa, as opposed to the 'Dark Continent' tropes we have been drip-fed. Conversely, Africans are starting to revise their education curricula to weed out Euro-centric dominance, e.g. South Africa is proposing to drop Shakespeare from its English syllabus and put its emphasis on the great writers of Africa and their own rich tradition of literature and poetry.