اقدام به نمایندگی از شرکت حقوقی داوری Dugué & مشتری Kirtley, این اتحاد ملی آزادی باروتلند (BNFA), William Kirtley has published an article concerning Barotseland’s bid for independence from Zambia in the leading Francophone African news magazine آفریقای جوان.
پادشاه مواناوینا سوم باروتلند و Rt Hon Macmillan از انگلیس (ژانویه 1960)
پروتکل پیشین انگلیس از باروتلند willingly chose to become part of زامبیا مطابق با توافق نامه باروتلند 1964, a treaty brokered by the United Kingdom that was intended to preserve Barotseland’s semi-autonomous status within an independent Zambia.
گرچه کنت کائوندا, اولین رئیس جمهور زامبیا, 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 به زودی پس از استقلال زامبیا شروع می شود, going so far as to modify the Zambian Constitution to remove all references to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, به “فسخ کننده” the British act of parliament granting sovereignty to Zambia which referred to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, به سلب خزانه داری باروتلند, to changing the name of Barotseland to the generic “منطقه غربی” and attempting to destroy Barotseland’s previously well-functioning institutions.
قابل درک است, که در 2012, این 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. هنوز, زامبیا به جای اینکه درگیر گفت و گو شود ، سرکوب را در پروتکل پیشین باروتسلند بریتانیا افزایش داد, 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 داوری PCA در لاهه.
منبع: آفریقای جوان (2014)
به روز, تقریباً 10,000 نمایندگان باروتلند توافقنامه داوری PCA را امضا کردند designed to allow an independent and neutral arbitral tribunal in The Hague to rule upon the status of the Barotseland Agreement 1964 مطابق با قوانین بین المللی. 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 آفریقای جوان concerning Barotseland’s enlightened attempts to have the issue of its legal status settled by way of PCA arbitration, به جای خشونت همانطور که به نظر می رسد زامبیا به دنبال آن است, was prepared jointly by the BNFA, William Kirtley, یک دانشمند اجتماعی فرانسه, Koralie Wietrzykowski و Audrey و Christophe Dugué. It may be found online at https://jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20140606174635/ and is reproduced below.
