People gather around the airplane that arrived carrying skulls from Germany at the airport on the outskirts of the city of Windhoek, Namibia, Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011. Namibian tribal leaders took possession Friday of the skulls of their countrymen, and returned to Windhoek airport in Namibia Tuesday Oct. 4, 2011, to welcome back the skulls of twenty ancestors, who were taken by German forces for racist experiments more than a century ago, and are now being returned to their homeland. Namibia Prime Minister Nahas Angula said that he "accepts these mortal remains as a symbolic closure of a tragic chapter." Photo: Schalk Van Zuydam / AP 

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — With warriors on horseback and teary-eyed women ululating their joy, hundreds of Namibians on Tuesday welcomed home the skulls of ancestors taken to Germany for racist experiments more than a century ago.

The skulls are "testimony to the horrors of colonialism and German cruelty against our people," Prime Minister Nahas Angula said at an airport ceremony. "The Namibian nation accepts these mortal remains as a symbolic closure of a tragic chapter."   Read more...

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