Tanzania wants Germany not to stop apologizing with words for its crimes, it wants actions

"I want to apologize for what the Germans did to your ancestors," Steinmeier said at a special memorial held at the Maji Maji Museum in Songea district in southern Tanzania. He uttered these words while standing in front of the graves of Chief Songea Mbano and 66 other leaders of the Wangoni tribe, who were brutally killed by the German colonialists when the patriotic fighters waged a heroic struggle famous for the Maji Maji war from 1905 to 1907 against of those European colonists, namely Germany. That was the first time that the German president ever publicly acknowledged the atrocities committed by the Germans during the colonial era in Tanzania. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier laying a wreath at the Maji Maji war memorial in Songea district, Tanzania Despite this, the German president did not touch at all on other more important matters such as compensation for the victims of the crimes of the German colonialists in Tanzania and the return home of the remains of the Tanzanian fighters who stood firm against German colonialism. Haji Abdulkarim, the great-grandson of the local chief who was brutally killed by the Germans in 1906, describes the terrible things that were done to their ancestors, including his father's grandfather, before they were brutally killed by the European colonists. He has said with great sadness that: "Even after they were hanged, the bodies of those Tanzanian fighters at least 60 were dragged on the ground and buried in a mass grave." He said this when he was interviewed by the Anadolu news agency and added that: "It was a very cruel act to kill people as if they were chickens."