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.