Seeds of Fire: A People’s Chronology

Recalling events that happened on this day in history.
Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.

Compiled by Ulli Diemer

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August 11, 1904
At Waterberg in Southwest Afrika (now Namibia) German forces start slaughtering Hereros who have rebelled against the German colonial occupation. An estimated 65,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama are killed in a four-year period. Survivors are put in concentration camps or made to do forced labour building railways and harbours. The events are regarded as the first genocide of the twentieth century.
August 11, 1931  
Eight leaders of the Canadian Communist Party, including Tim Buck, are arrested for belonging to an “unlawful association.”



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