Has any country ever voluntarily admitted to genocide?
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German authorities are moving toward officially recognizing as a "genocide" the colonial-era crackdown in Namibia by German troops more than a century ago in which more than 65,000 ethnic Hereros were killed.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/10/germany-moves-toward-recognizing-as-genocide-colonial-era-crackdown-against/The Auswärtige Amt declared ... : "The war of extermination in Namibia from 1904 to 1908 was a crime against humanity and genocide." ...
Chancellor, President and the German Bundestag avoided a recognition of the genocide in the past. Presumably also for fear of demands of reparation that are being raised for years from the Namibian side. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/namibia-massaker-bundesregierung-spricht-von-voelkermord-a-1043117.html
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A Modern example of public apology:
Official Apology by Government of Canada to Aboriginal Peoples of Canada for Cultural Genocide:
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