Im Namen der Schiedsgerichtskanzlei Dugué handeln & Kirtleys Kunde, das Barotseland National Freedom Alliance (BNFA), William Kirtley has published an article concerning Barotseland’s bid for independence from Zambia in the leading Francophone African news magazine Junges Afrika.
König Mwanawina III von Barotseland und Rt Hon Macmillan von Großbritannien (Januar 1960)
Das ehemalige britische Protektorat von Barotseland willingly chose to become part of Sambia gemäß dem Barotseland-Vereinbarung 1964, a treaty brokered by the United Kingdom that was intended to preserve Barotseland’s semi-autonomous status within an independent Zambia.
Obwohl Kenneth Kaunda, der erste Präsident von Sambia, signed the treaty himself on behalf of the Government of Northern Rhodesia, he and the Zambian Government would violate every provision of the Barotseland Agreement 1964 kurz nach der Unabhängigkeit Sambias, going so far as to modify the Zambian Constitution to remove all references to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, zu “annullieren” the British act of parliament granting sovereignty to Zambia which referred to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, Barotselands Schatzkammer zu enteignen, to changing the name of Barotseland to the generic “Westliche Region” and attempting to destroy Barotseland’s previously well-functioning institutions.
Verständlicherweise, im 2012, das Barotseland National Council voted to accept Zambia’s abrogation of the Barotseland Agreement 1964, with the logical consequence that Barotseland had regained its independence since the treaty by which it freely forged a union with Zambia had ended. Noch, Anstatt in einen Dialog einzutreten, hat Sambia die Unterdrückung im ehemaligen britischen Protektorat Barotseland verstärkt, imprisoning dozens of Barotseland activists on the charge of treason and increasing the police presence in Barotseland while refusing to consider Barotseland’s calls for the peaceful resolution of the issue of Barotseland’s legal status by way of PCA-Schiedsverfahren in Den Haag.
Quelle: Junges Afrika (2014)
Miteinander ausgehen, etwa 10,000 Vertreter von Barotseland haben eine PCA-Schiedsvereinbarung unterzeichnet designed to allow an independent and neutral arbitral tribunal in The Hague to rule upon the status of the Barotseland Agreement 1964 in Übereinstimmung mit dem Völkerrecht. President Sata of Zambia has steadfastly refused to sign the PCA arbitration agreement, in an apparent recognition that Zambia’s acts flagrantly violated the treaty.
The article in Junges Afrika concerning Barotseland’s enlightened attempts to have the issue of its legal status settled by way of PCA arbitration, eher als Gewalt, wie Sambia zu suchen scheint, was prepared jointly by the BNFA, William Kirtley, ein französischer Sozialwissenschaftler, Koralie Wietrzykowski und Audrey und Christophe Dugué. It may be found online at https://jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20140606174635/ and is reproduced below.
