UNPO
COUNSELS ZAMBIA’S PRESIDENT ON CONTINUED HUMAN RIGHT ABUSES IN BAROTSELAND.
The
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples organization (UNPO) has written an open
letter dated 27th November 2015 to the Zambian President, Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu over what it has termed “a matter of great
concern...” In the letter, UNPO’s General Secretary, Mr. Marino Busdachin has lashed out at what he has called “a trend of
excessive use of force by the Zambian Police in the Barotseland region,
silencing peaceful voices of descent, suppressing legal assemblies and unjustly
persecuting its citizens simply for having an alternative political view.”
The
gesture by UNPO is greatly commended and the rest of the world is urged to take
a leaf from UNPO’s demonstration of solidarity and ‘brother’s keeper’ attitude
towards the oppressed people of the Zambian occupied territory of Barotseland.
The world must speak with one voice to condemn the continued Human Rights
abuses and atrocities being committed by the Zambian Government against the
peaceful and peace loving people of Barotseland. Pressure must be exerted on
the Zambian Regime from all possible angles to put a halt to this growing trend
before it erupts into an unpleasant volcano of hostilities that has the
potential to engulf the whole Southern African Region.