By SILUMESI MALUMO ZAMBIA may lose villages and a school if the ongoing beaconing of Zambia-Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) borders is not stopped immediately, the Bwile Royal Establishment (BRE) has warned.The BRE representative, Dr Katele Kalumba said the beaconing exercise was a miscarriage of the Zambia-Zaire Delimitation Treaty of 1989.Dr Kalumba said in the absence of GPS technology and democratic political dispensation at the time, there was little participation by the people affected in terms of their universal human rights as to what sovereign authorities they would wish to remain under.He said people’s concern was that they cannot just wake up one morning and find their citizenship, a quality protected by the constitution, stripped away and became Congolese.He said “in the absence of sophisticated GPS technology, the Delimitation Treaty lacked precision. In the current exercise 32 villages including a whole sub chiefdom of Swali has been alienated to the DRC.Dr Kalumba also said large chunks of highly mineralised land have been hived off to the DRC, […]
HALT DRC BORDER DEMARCATION
