मध्यस्थता कानून फर्म ड्यूगे की ओर से अभिनय & कीर्ति के ग्राहक, के बरोट्सलैंड नेशनल फ्रीडम एलायंस (BNFA), William Kirtley has published an article concerning Barotseland’s bid for independence from Zambia in the leading Francophone African news magazine युवा अफ्रीका.
बरोटलैंड के राजा मवनवीना III और ग्रेट ब्रिटेन के आरटी माननीय मैकमिलन (जनवरी 1960)
के पूर्व ब्रिटिश रक्षक Barotseland willingly chose to become part of जाम्बिया के अनुसार बरोट्सलैंड समझौता 1964, a treaty brokered by the United Kingdom that was intended to preserve Barotseland’s semi-autonomous status within an independent Zambia.
यद्यपि केनेथ कौंडा, जाम्बिया के पहले राष्ट्रपति, 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 जाम्बिया की स्वतंत्रता के तुरंत बाद शुरू हुआ, going so far as to modify the Zambian Constitution to remove all references to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, सेवा “annulling” the British act of parliament granting sovereignty to Zambia which referred to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, बरोटलैंड के खजाने को निष्कासित करने के लिए, to changing the name of Barotseland to the generic “पश्चिमी क्षेत्र” and attempting to destroy Barotseland’s previously well-functioning institutions.
जाहिर है, में 2012, के 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. अभी तक, बातचीत में शामिल होने के बजाय ज़ाम्बिया ने बरोटलैंड के पूर्व ब्रिटिश रक्षक में दमन बढ़ा दिया है, 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 हेग में पीसीए मध्यस्थता.
स्रोत: युवा अफ्रीका (2014)
तारीख तक, लगभग 10,000 बारोटलैंड के प्रतिनिधियों ने एक पीसीए मध्यस्थता समझौते पर हस्ताक्षर किए हैं designed to allow an independent and neutral arbitral tribunal in The Hague to rule upon the status of the Barotseland Agreement 1964 अंतरराष्ट्रीय कानून के अनुसार. 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 युवा अफ्रीका concerning Barotseland’s enlightened attempts to have the issue of its legal status settled by way of PCA arbitration, हिंसा के बजाय ज़ाम्बिया मांगता हुआ प्रतीत होता है, was prepared jointly by the BNFA, William Kirtley, एक फ्रांसीसी सामाजिक वैज्ञानिक, कोराली विएट्रीकोव्स्की और ऑड्रे और क्रिस्टोफ डुगुए. It may be found online at https://jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20140606174635/ and is reproduced below.
