During the two-day conference, organized ahead of the centennial commemoration of the forced relocation of Ottoman Armenians, at the Hague Institute for Global Justice, a leading British jurist Geoffrey Robertson blamed Germany for its complicity with the Turks in forced relocation of the Armenians by the Ottomans during World War I, informs Armradio citing Today's Zaman.
"Germans advised Ottoman Turks to settle the Armenian question based on Germany’s practice of ethnic cleansing in southwest Africa back in 1905. In response to a rebellion by native people against German colonial rule in the area corresponding to today’s Namibia, the German army allegedly let the native people who fled the violence die from starvation and thirst by preventing them from leaving the Namibian dessert. The number of victims is estimated to be in the tens of thousands," Robertson noted during the conference.