Campaigns by German colonialists against the Herero people in German South-West Africa (now Namibia). A Herero rebellion resulted in the deliberate near-extermination of the population by the Germans, their numbers falling from over 100,000 to 15,000. The survivors were resettled in the inhospitable desert land of contemporary Hereroland in Namibia. The Nama people, who also rebelled in 1904, suffered a similar fate. A United Nations report in 1985 classed the treatment of the Herero and Nama as genocide; the German government apologized in 2004.