Действуя от имени арбитражной юридической фирмы Dugué & Клиент Киртли, то Barotseland Национальный Альянс Свободы (БНФА), William Kirtley has published an article concerning Barotseland’s bid for independence from Zambia in the leading Francophone African news magazine Молодая Африка.
Король Мванавина III из Бароцленда и Достопочтенный Макмиллан из Великобритании (январь 1960)
Бывший британский протекторат Barotseland willingly chose to become part of Замбия в соответствии с Баротеландское соглашение 1964, a treaty brokered by the United Kingdom that was intended to preserve Barotseland’s semi-autonomous status within an independent Zambia.
Хотя Кеннет Каунда, первый президент Замбии, 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 начиная вскоре после независимости Замбии, going so far as to modify the Zambian Constitution to remove all references to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, в “аннулирующий” the British act of parliament granting sovereignty to Zambia which referred to the Barotseland Agreement 1964, на экспроприацию казны Бароцелланда, to changing the name of Barotseland to the generic “Западный регион” and attempting to destroy Barotseland’s previously well-functioning institutions.
Понятное, в 2012, то 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. Еще, вместо участия в диалоге Замбия усилила репрессии в бывшем британском протекторате Бароцленд, 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 арбитраж в Гааге.
Источник: Молодая Африка (2014)
Назначить свидание, примерно 10,000 Представители Barotseland подписали арбитражное соглашение PCA designed to allow an independent and neutral arbitral tribunal in The Hague to rule upon the status of the Barotseland Agreement 1964 в соответствии с международным правом. 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 Молодая Африка concerning Barotseland’s enlightened attempts to have the issue of its legal status settled by way of PCA arbitration, а не насилие, как Замбия, похоже, ищет, was prepared jointly by the BNFA, William Kirtley, французский социолог, Корали Витшиковски, Одри и Кристоф Дюге. It may be found online at https://jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAWEB20140606174635/ and is reproduced below.
