A Dugué választottbírósági ügynökség nevében eljárva & Kirtley ügyfele, az Barotseland Nemzeti Szabadság Szövetség (BNFA), William Kirtley has published an article concerning Barotseland’s bid for independence from Zambia in the leading Francophone African news magazine Fiatal Afrika.
III. Barotseland Mwanawina király és Nagy-Britannia Rt Hon Macmillan (január 1960)
A korábbi brit protektorátus Barotseland willingly chose to become part of Zambia a Barotselandi megállapodás 1964, a treaty brokered by the United Kingdom that was intended to preserve Barotseland’s semi-autonomous status within an independent Zambia.
Bár Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia első elnöke, 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 hamarosan Zambia függetlensége után kezdődik, going so far as to modify the Zambian Constitution to remove all references to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, nak nek “megsemmisítő” the British act of parliament granting sovereignty to Zambia which referred to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, hogy Barotseland kincstárát kisajátítsák, to changing the name of Barotseland to the generic “Nyugati régió” and attempting to destroy Barotseland’s previously well-functioning institutions.
Érthetően, ban ben 2012, az 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. Még, ahelyett, hogy párbeszédet folytatna, Zambia fokozta az elnyomást a korábbi brit proteotorátában, Barotselandben, 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 választottbírósági eljárás Hágában.
Forrás: Fiatal Afrika (2014)
Randizni, hozzávetőlegesen, körülbelül 10,000 A barotzföld képviselői aláírták a PCA választottbírósági megállapodást designed to allow an independent and neutral arbitral tribunal in The Hague to rule upon the status of the Barotseland Agreement 1964 a nemzetközi joggal összhangban. 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 Fiatal Afrika concerning Barotseland’s enlightened attempts to have the issue of its legal status settled by way of PCA arbitration, nem az erőszak, mint amilyennek látszik Zambia, was prepared jointly by the BNFA, William Kirtley, egy francia társadalomtudós, Koralie Wietrzykowski és Audrey és Christophe Dugué. It may be found online at https://jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20140606174635/ and is reproduced below.
