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
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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.
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August 11, 1931
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Eight leaders of the Canadian Communist Party, including Tim Buck, are arrested for belonging to an “unlawful association.”
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