Resistance and Accommodation - Statement Of Hendrik Witbooi (nama Chief) On The German Administration, South West Africa [namibia]

The German himself … is just what he described the other nations as … he makes no requests according to truth and justice and asks no permission of a chief. He introduces laws into the land … [which] are entirely impossible, untenable, unbelievable, unbearable, unmerciful and unfeeling.… He personally punishes our people at Windhoek and has already beaten people to death for debt.… it is not just and right to beat people to death for that.… He flogs people in a shameful and cruel manner. We stupid and unintelligent people, for so he thinks us to be, we have never yet punished a human being in such a cruel and improper way for he stretches people on their backs and flogs them on the stomach and even between the legs, be they male or female, so Your Honour can understand that no one can survive such a punishment.

SOURCE: Namibweb.com, "German Imperialism in South West Africa."