Inside West Nile by Mark Leopold
2004. Approx. 288 pp., maps, notes, references, index
Cloth, $65.00/Paper, $29.95
Mark Leopold spent several years in the late 1990s in the West Nile region of Uganda and his experiences and research form the basis of this book. The West Nile region, in northwestern Uganda, has been a region encircled by violence, conflict, and mystery. The home of Idi Amin, one of Africa's most notorious dictators, and a peoples with a history of resistance, the West Nile region and its people have often been misunderstood and marginalized by the international community as well as their fellow Ugandans. The area has been a victim of Arab slave raids, used as a labor reserve by colonial rulers, ignored under Idi Amin, and displaced by vengeful post-Amin armies.
Mark Leopold takes us into the history and culture of West Nilers. Many people have said the region is cursed and that its residents are innately violent, beliefs that have played a large part in the region's relationship to the outside world. Leopold's introduction begins with a history of the region, dating back to the early 19th Century, and tells the story of the people of the West Nile. Often confused with the Acholi of northern Uganda and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) infamy, the people of the West Nile are in fact located west of the Nile river and sandwiched between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Sudan. The peoples of this area have always flowed freely across boarders and are in many ways closer to each other than they are to their countrymen in Kampala, Kinshasa, or Khartoum. This fact is one reason why conflicts in the DRC and the Sudan have always been linked to Uganda and why Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) fighters have routinely been seen in Uganda. Fighters in the West Nile, including the West Nile Bank Front (WNBF) or Uganda National Rescue Front Part II flow back and forth into both the DRC and the Sudan. This has made the region a particularly volatile one.
Much of Leopold's stay was in the West Nile's major city of Arua, which literally means "prison" among the region's largest group, the Lugbara. The name dates back to the region's history under Belgium rule when the town was said to be a place where people were rounded up and brought. Arua, whose inhabitants are mostly Muslim, is more importantly known as a trade crossroads. The town sees traffic between rural and urban Uganda, and the town's economy is largely based on its position as the trade hub for black market goods that flow between Uganda, the DRC, and Sudan.
Leopold's book spans the mid-19th Century to the end of the 20th Century. Pre-colonial West Nile definitely saw its share of violence. Much of the area's conversion to Islam occurred as a result of Arab influence in the region during the Arab slave raids. The region also had its share of conflicts with neighboring groups. This is not, however, the reason for the perception of West Nilers as a violent people. The roots of the supposed violent nature of the West Nilers, according to Leopold, dates back to 1919 during the Yakan Water uprising by West Nilers against British rule. The Yakan water was a 'drug' that was used in the region at the time and was said to rouse "timid men to warfare". The 'drug' is steeped in the practice of witchcraft and used by participants in the 1919 uprising. Leopold says this event was a major factor in creating the image of West Nilers as a violent and warlike people.
Under the colonial system, the region, as with other regions in Uganda, was taxed heavily by the British. To pay these taxes, West Nilers were forced into migrant labor, traveling to the southern regions of the country to find work. The extent of the labor migration crippled the region and weakened traditional family structures in the West Nile region. But the migrations set a trend. During and after colonialism, West Nilers would make up a large percentage of the lower ranks of the military, due in large part to their perceived aggressive nature. As successive regimes fell into disfavor with West Nilers, these former combatants made up a large percentage of West Nile rebel groups.
The region's role in civil conflict has also been significant. From the Uganda National Rescue Front (UNRF), the West Nile Bank Front (WNBF), to the Uganda National Rescue Front Part II (UNRF II), the people of the West Nile have also had a history of armed opposition to both the Milton Obote regime as well as the current regime of Yoweri Museveni. Other West Nilers, like a council of elders that was formed to make West Nile grievances heard, have tried to address issues in the region peacefully and have distanced themselves from the rebel groups in the region. The conflicts between the region and the central government have been rooted in the central government's mistrust of the region, given its ties to Idi Amin, and the region's frustration with its marginilization by the central government. This has all led to instability in the region, raids and attacks by SPLA and Ugandan government forces, a lack of government projects in the area, and the area's lag in development behind southern Uganda.
While most West Nilers distance themselves from Idi Amin, whose regime did little to help the region. West Nile's violent history has often been used to explain Amin's ruthlessness and oppressive rule. Leopold's chapter on "Amin, West Nile, & the Postcolony" sheds light on Amin's legacy and his connection to the West Nile region. Leopold examines Amin, the man and the myth, and examines whether or not Amin was a product of the West Nile's supposed violent history and culture or an aberration of it.
Mark Leopold's book wonderfully addresses the misconceptions behind the people of the West Nile. It is almost as if through Mark Leopold, West Nilers have opened up the curtain just enough to give us a glimpse into who they are and dispel many myths, but not enough to uncover the full mystery of who they are and the secrets they hold. Even the mystery behind Idi Amin's true origins is not revealed to Leopold, or other researchers who have preceded him. The people of the West Nile have a complex history that has been influenced by their contacts with Arabs, the Belgium, and the British. While they are Muslim and Christian, traditional beliefs and witchcraft play an important role in their culture and practices. Leopold reveals much of the controversy behind these peoples. Unlike the Massai or the Zulu, the people of the West Nile are not revered as great warriors; instead they are marginalized as troublemakers who only know violence. How much of this is in connection with Idi Amin? What is the true nature behind the West Niler's violent past? These are just some of the questions answered in Inside West Nile.
Academics, especially anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, will find Mark Leopold's book enlightening and full of detailed historical accounts. Non-academics will have to overcome Professor Leopold's attention to detail and absorb the story as a whole. Either way, the book makes for a great look into the peoples and culture that make up the West Nile region of northwestern Uganda.
Msia Kibona Clark is a Sasakawa Fellow and PhD Candidate at Howard University's African Studies Department. Her dissertation topic examines the impact of African immigration to the U.S. on African and African American relationships. Msia is also the Ugandan Country Specialist for Amnesty International and the Book Review Editor for AllAfrica.com
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WEST NILE IS THE CEDED PART OF SOUTH WEST OF LADO ENCLAVE TO UGANDA IN 1913 / 1914 BY THE COLONIAL AUTHORITY OF BRITAIN .
Lado Enclave - " region Africa " is a region in Central Africa bordering with Lake Albert on the west bank of the Upper Nile, that was administered by the Congo Free State in 1894 1909 and which later was incorporated into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. after the British threats of Belgium to take over Lado . Lado has a long History of her people and the People know their History very well as I am telling in the summary form below
THE CRONOLOGICAL POLITICAL HISTORY KINGDOM " KAARI " OF LADO IN AFRICA .
Since 3000 B C ---- Following a war which started as a Spartacus - like rebellion from 1090 b.c to 700 b. c when LADO became Independent from Egypt .
From 700 B.C ------ Lado people struggled for their Independence from Egyptian Pharaonic Reign over them in the period of the last fall of Pharao ' s intensified by the Power struggle between the Egyptian High Priests and the Pharao couple - Tut - Ank - Amon and Queen Neferite .
Around 749 BC ------ The Sudanics left Egypt - as their predecessors the Jews had done under Moses around 11 -1200 BC , Led by their war hero, General Laro, the Sudanics moved Southwards and finaly decided to settle around the foot of the Mountain which they named " LADO "
687 B. C ---------------. The Lado people moved on and last and definate to settle on the foot hills of the mountain which they named Mt Lado lying in the Sudan Central Africa with the southern tip end territory extending up to Lake Ombizako , name in Lui - Gbari language of Lado , " today called by the British " ( Lake Albert ) in Central Africa .
640 AD -- 1270 ------- Ethiopia under Rule of Lado for 7 centuries . One of such Great Ruler was from 9th May 864 A . D , has had its Rulers through the Heroes like Ancestor ( Negus ) of Ethiopia by then , Sambala Naiga , who on His part of the tract after the Political upheavels left to be exact , Lake Tana where his home place was at that time , moved lastly to Lado . ( c. f : History Research on Origines of Lado People in Africa ) .
847 AD ----------------- A modern Nation State .- Kingdom of Lado was established in and to replace the then Ancient Lado which was founded already in 700 BC..
13th and 14th Centuaries ------ was the period of Re - organisation of the Region ( Central Africa ) based on theTribal Philosophy in order to ensure a proper care and a better Social Services to the People . The 29 Tribes of Lado Re -- organised and existing till todate with their Affiliation to the State Kingdom of Lado .
1452 --------------------- In the period of Papacy , Pope Pius II , aimed to create a Vicariate in the Sudan Central Africa ..
1711 --------------------- Real direct contact between Lado with the Western European World started when Catholic Mission was founded in Ladoland by the Franciscan Fathers , from Austria , during the Papacy of Pope Clement XI ( cf : by Pope Pius II , 1452 )
9th May 1772 ----------------- THE Lado Constitution was passed on 9 May 1772, after the 60-year War (and specifically with Arabs of the Slave Trade ) and gave Executive Powers to the Agofe / King, which is the Institution of the Government. Lado was Assisted by the Jesuits who travelled from their Valleta house in Malta .
1821 --------------- The Turco - Egyptian occupation , as it was later called , was to plunder of the black lands South Sahara deserts ( Sudan ) Lado occupied .
13th February 1841 - 1st April 1864 -------- Turco - Egyptian Firman of 13 February 1841, and the Turco - Egyptian Firman of 1st April 1869 for the occupation of Lado which took place on 26th May 1871 to Convert Lado in a Western so called Modern State in Central Africa .
Half of 19th centuary ( 1850 ) ---- The History of Lado took place among its ethnic groups . Re - organisation levels
1867 ---------------------- The Jesuits remained in Lado until 1867 by which time they were replaced by the still present Verona Fathers from Italy .
26 May 1871 ----- ----- Ottoman - Empire ( todays reduced to Turkey ) extended control of Lado under the Nominated a British National who was serving in the Ottoman Military Service by name Sir Samuel White Baker . He became the First Governor General to Lado to serve the Ottoman Interests - ( Lado Occupied ) .
3rd August 1875 ------- Can be remembered as the beginning date , as the European States divided the African Continent amongst them , ( the Paris Resolution ) and again on 26 February 1885 (the Berlin Treaty) where they took African Freedom and Liberty and imposed their Religion and their Values on the African Peoples .
1876 -- 1878 ---------- : United States undertook to occupy Lado ---- Colonel Henry .G . Prost and Colonel Alexandra . A Manson 1876 - 1878 actively participated in the administration of Lado and all failed to control Equatoria - Lado Nation occupied for U . S . A .
1879 ---------------------- Belgium and Lado entered into War
1881 ----------------------- The Arab descedent Religious Force known as ( revolt of the Mahdi in the Sudan State ) made loose to Egypt the control of Lado . King Leopoldo of Belgium ordered Belgian Troops to Occupy Lado .
25th February 1885 ----- Implication of Berlin Conferene for the Partition of Africa . Lado falls a Victim of Colonial pretext .( c,f : Article 6 in the Berlin Treaty ) .
7th March 1887 --------- Assasination of the Royal - Agofe / King , Ayingani .
1889 ----------------------- War ended up between Belgium and Lado which lasted for the 10 ( Ten ) years .
17th September 1891 ( Kavali Agreement ) ----- A British Imperial Army ( King's African Rifles ) was established in 1891 under the Kavalli Agreement of 17 September 1891. The Agreement was signed by the English Captain Frederick D. Lugard who later became the Governor- General of Nigeria and , a Citizen of Lado Major Selim Matera signed for Lado
It was him Governor - .General. Lugard who developed the British Colonial Doctrine called The Dual Mandate ( Indirect Rule ), which is still in force through the Commonwealth Pyramid Divide-and-Rule System with the Queen / King on top, and under the Sovereign Head are the British
28th September 1892 -- Peace Agreement reached between Lado and Belgium . Leuftnant Milz took over from his Commadant Van Kerckhoven who died before arrival to Wadelai Signed it for Belgium . On the part of Lado was Signed by Commandant Fadh El Mula Aga ( A Lugbari tribe of Lado ) .This Convention Treaty came to be known Belgium - Lugbari Agreement for Cooperation Between Lado and Belgium .Belgium Recognised the Crown Sovereignty of Lado .
29th September1892 ---- Lado allowed Belgium Flag to be hoisted at Wadelai , which was the Capital of Lado by tnen .
12 of May and 14 of August of 1894 --- Agreement signed between Britain and Belgium recognizing the temporary possession to King Lepeoldo Lado territory called formally Side Enclave , which was separated from the Province of Bahr el Ghazal of Sudan State
1898 Mutiny of the Uganda Soldiers ( Army ) in Uganda ------. Predominantly being the Sudanic people of Lado in the Army , They Mutined Against the British Orders which was to send them to fight their own Brothers in North Lado in the Sudan State who already were fighting against the British Soldiers ( Army ) there . The Commandant Effendi Bilal Amin ( The Grand Father of Idi Amin who later became President of Uganda in 1971 ) and his Officers were arrested and all Killed . The Indian - Asian Soldires were brought in from India to do the massacares .
1899 -------------------- France disengaged herself from the problems of Lado thruogh the Cairo treaty of 21 March 1899 , between Britain and France which was concurrently signed in Cairo ( Egypt ) and in London ( Britain ) by the French Ambassador Paul Gabon and the British Lord Salsbury .
December 1899 -------------------- The Treaty of Arua - Aru between Lugbara ( Lado ) and Russia ( USSR ) in December 1899 ( For friendly Cooperation ) During Nicholas II .
9th May 1906 ------- Several Agreements were reached between the Europeans to modifiy and to delimit the sphere of influence of the Europeans over Lado .
End of Year 1907----- All European countries Inculding( Russia ) signed Agreements to re - affirm their cooperation with Britain not to come to assistance when Britain goes to War with Lado .
1908 ------------------- King Leopoldo made as a donation the Congo Free State to Belgium, thus becoming a Colony ( The Belgian Congo ) . leaving Lado aside .
1909 -------------------- King Leopoldo II died and the unclear illegal adopted term of Renting Territory Side to the King up to 1910 seized to exist thus reverting Lado to Britain . Britain in her treacherous acts to destroy Lado decided on her own with War Campaigns against any of the Western powers who dared to enter into Lado Affairs , partitioned then , most of the Territory Lado Land ( Lado Enclave ) , incorporting it into the State of Sudan , except for a portion of the South , which is ceded to Uganda. 1910 - 1914 ---- Lado removed from World Map / Atlases by the British Authority .
1909 --------------------- Treaty of Dufile ( dufule ) between Lado and U S A ( For Cooperation ) . During the period of President . Theodore Roosevelt ( New York ) .
1914 - 1919 ------------ Britain and Lado entered into a military war battle which lasted for 5 years . In the war account , Princess Driciru was only Six Months old when she was killed by the British Army during this Lugbari (Lado - British) War of 1914-1919. She was buried alive in 1916 by the British Army. ( The British Army was defeated here in 1916 in the Battle of Erea at the foot of Mount Iti ) . The British still have never forgotten this Battle as an Issue to Hate Lado and to see that Lado does not exist any more for the World people to know this History event .
That is why She ( Britain ) is using all the Political , Diplomatic wars and now including Military War using her Satellite Africans Countries ( Commonwealth Countries in Africa ) to Hide and Destroy the People of Lado and the Land Kingdom Lado . The State of Uganda , DR Congo , Kenya , and the State of Sudan as Neighbouring to Lado are Spearheading the Military Operations right deep in Lado now . All this is to be done before 2011 and Lado to take a New name as The Black Christian Southern Sudan State . The 29 Tribes of Lado have to Disappear and be replaced by the Tribes of the Black Sudanese in the Sudan State , the Black Tribes from Uganda , Kenya and DR Congo and then to add the other Black Communities from the other parts of Africa and the World or may be brought in Refugee Settlements from other parts of the World . This is the British Plan being Supported Highly by U S A . It is the Road Map they are talking of as the creation of a New State " Southern Sudan " in Central Africa - Sudan which is actually Lado .
1920 ------------------- A Peace Agreement ( Truce ) was reached upon to end war between Britain and Lado ( Lado and Britain Signed ).. A Senior Police High Commissioner in South Africa Mr E.Weatherhead signed on behalf of the British Crown and hence was appointed to represent the British Crown to Lado .
24 July 1923. 1923 , Lausane Agreement ----------------- Ottoman Empire was dissolved by the Treaty of Lausanne of 24 July 1923. According to the Lausanne Treaty, the Ottoman Empire, which had now become the Republic of Turkey in 1923, had to relinquish all the Territories under the then Ottoman Empire. This included Egypt and LADO ( Equatoria Province of Egypt ), and meant that the Occupied Territories were and still remain Political Entities ( Nation States ) . That means that LADO should have been an Independent and Sovereign Nation State in 1923.
1926 -- 1934 --------- Atrocities in Lado under the British Governor - General, Sir John Maffey,
1927 ------------------ Her Majesty Queen Aliojeku was assassinated by the British in 1927 under the British Governor-General John Maffey ( former High Commissioner of North-West India, to-day Kashmir) .
1931 -- 1936 ---------- Tension between British occupant and Lado where war broke out into the Kakua - kajo - keji war . The United States ( U . S . A ) intervention by President Franklin D Roosevelt to end the war .
1940 ------------------- Agofe / King , His Majesty Lemiro's Reign culminated with his Assasination .
1945 - The Pan Africanism Association Formed ------ Agofe / King Atabua of Lado became the Chairman of African Chiefs / Heads in the Conference which was held in Manchester in 1945 , and Kwame Nkrumah (His first name was Francis) became the secretary and Jomo Kenyatta (His real name was Johnston Kamau) he became assistant secretary. But the Agofe / King will be Assassinated because He asked USSR to raise the question of Lado at the UN in 1947 .
26 January 1846 ----- H.H. Pope Gregory XVI signed a Document making the Upper Nile Valley, Lado, 'The Vicariate of Central Africa .
1947 ----- King Atabua resigned as Commandant of King African Rifles ( He was later replaced by a British Officer by name Colonel Alan Knight ) to carry out the Independence of Lado in 1947.
1947 ----- The Question of the Colonisation of Lado was raised in the United Nations Organisation ( UNO ) - Trusteeship Council which the British wished to discuss with Uganda by the USSR . The citizens of Lado asked for freedom
14 April 1948 -------------------- Agofe / King , His Majesty Anacleto Atobua, was shot dead to prevent Him from presenting the Lado Issue at the UN General Assembly Meeting in New York, USA . Britain does everything to keep Lado as Her Possession . Military Experence of His Majesty Anacleto Atabua is as follows : In World War II , King Atobua of Lado , who was assassinated on 14 April 1948 by the British Colonial Agents on British Orders . Agofe / King Atabua commanded King Afican Regiments ( KAR ) under Admiral Lord Louis Francis Mountbatten in Burma . Admiral of Fleet, Lord Mountbatten was the Supreme Allied Commander in South-East Asia 1943 - 1946 .
The assasination death of the Agofe / King re - opened war again with Britain . The British conservative Government under the Wise Old Man Prime Minister Winston .S .Churchhill in 1951 stopped the war . The Governor for Lado affairs by then was Major General Sir John Hall .
1952 --------------------- Lado Envoy Extraordinary Atamva John Bart Agami who today is the present AGOFE / KING of Lado was sent with assistance of Egypt - President Colonel Abdel Nasser to USSR to meet the Secretary General Marshal Joseph Stalin as Lado situation was precipitating following the British attitude towards Lado . USSR took a side for Lado .
1953 ----------------------- Another yet , Keego / Prime Minister of Lado was assassinated by the British to change the Political cause of Lado . In this particular moment , Lado had rejected the British intention of creating an East African Federation as Lado a part of it .
1953 ---------------- Once again this time , the Lado Envoy Extraordinary Atamva John Bart Agami was sent with the assistance of Ethiopia - Emperor Haile Selassie Tafari Makonnen to meet Prime Minister , Wiston . S . Church hill , in Malta .
30th April 1954 ---- Nile Bridge talks - Meeting between Lado Envoy Extraordinary and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II took place in Uganda . It was agreed that Lado would be independent in 1960 / 1961 .
1956 ------------------ A conference was held in Arua which included , Congo's first Prime Minister , Mr Patrick Lumumba on the question of Lado and its Peoples Rights to Self - determination and on the question of the Nile waters . ( cf .Nile Waters Agreement of 1929 and Nile Waters Utilization Agreement of 8th November . 1959 ) .
1957 ------------------- The Representative of Lado Atamva ( Mr ) , Ringe afterwards was assassinated . Atamva Ringe is an Alur of Luo tribe in Lado.
1958 --------------- General Elections of March 1958 were held to determine the independence of Lado and the future Prime Minister after Decolonisation . Atamva Gaspero ( a Lugbari tribe ) won the elections amongst all the candidates of the 29 tribes of Lado .
1960 ---------------- The Agofe of Lado in the untimely natural death KARANGA / GENERAL - ANACIA BOROA , O M died of whose death the British properly took advantage for the independence of Lado as promised by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II .
1962 --------------- Uganda received her Independence from Britain but on the Political Grounds , the Lado leader was arrested and sentenced to imprisonment by the British Authority in Uganda . He was and is the living physical person today of the Agofe of Lado who fortunately was released by his Military personnel in Uganda Uganda got its independence but remains till todate under the Supreme Authority of the Crown of Britain ( c . f : Implications of the British commomwealth ) .
1967 ----------------- A new political Constitution after being draughted in 1966 was passed in Uganda Parliament , without allowing a debate on it in 1967 . ( intention was to hide the knowledge that Lado is a seperate State from Uganda since 1892 . ) .
1971 ----------------- Uganda ' s plot for the Extermination came into picture in 1971 of the 1967 Master plan to finalise but failed in carrying it out in January 1971 . The result came out of the over throw of the President of Uganda Mr Apollo Milton Obote ( a Luo trbe of Uganda State . ) . And by the Military Hierachy Major General Idi Amin ( a Sudanic - Kakua by tribe from Lado ) took over the State Affairs of Uganda on 25th January 1971 ) . In the re - orgainsation of the State of Uganda General Idi Amin thought it wise to take back the Sovereignity of Uganda to view the Uganda - Lado relations . This became a big blow defeat for the British . The Sudanic ( Ladoan people ) in Uganda and Lado finally had to be wiped off completly in a war to be declared over Lado and her people
1975 ----------------- London Agreement of 1975 was reached . It was worked out in Lusaka in Zambia between Uganda and Britain , inclulding other commonwealth countries to fight the Sudanic tribes of the State of Lado .
1978 / 9 : ---------- War was declared on Lado and its people ( predominately Sudanic race ) which lasted from 6th October 1978 to April 1979 , whereby 250, 000 soldiers were assembled from all over the World especially from the British Commonwealth Countries and from the Political allies of Britain . In the diplomatc channel it was Denmark , a strong British ally who undertook running the diplomatic machinary to impliment the war and was the one who raised the issue in the United Nations under the cover that the war in Uganda was necessary to over throw the World ' s worst Dictator ever known , General Idi Amin . General Idi Amin is a Kakua - Sudanic tribe in Lado . After the over throw of Idi Amin , the coming true President of Uganda Mr, Yusuf Lule said " the Nile is betwwen us " , confirming the existence of the two States : i.e Lado ( since 1892 ) and Uganda ( since 1894 )
March 1979 ----- The Uganda Ethnic groups ( Bantu , Nilotics / Luo and Nilo Hamatics and of Tanzania and Africans held " Moshi Agreement " in Tanzania , finally to impliment the London Agreement of 1975.
1980 / 1 ----------- From 1979 to 1981 massive massacres of the Sudanics in the Southern Lado ( West Nile ) , in Uganda and in other East African Countries inclulding total destruction of Properties in this part of Lado ( both Private and Public properties ) were carried out in order to occupy Lado land ( cf ; Uganda plans of 1967 and Uganda decree of 12 May 1980 , Art. 5 and Art. 10 ) , This was done with full cooperation of Tanzania . The prospectve still continues under different forms of coverages .
From March 1982 -------- Massive killings continued in South Lado Regions supported by the British Flancoster and the S .A. S ( Special Air Service ) including the Military Personel , the British ( CO ' s and NO ' s ) who were sent to Uganda and later to West Nile ( South Lado ) in their explicit way " Military Language " they say the British Officers are only there in Uganda to train Ugandan Military Officers as they were called on to go there on the request or on the Orders of Mr Milton Obote and Mr Yoweri Museveni inorder to fight against the Gorrillas in the Region ( The West NIle Bank Front / Military Wing ) . But Britain knows , West Nile is South Lado Region of the State Kingdom ( KAARI ) of Lado .. Meanwhile the truth is that : Lado people are Defending their Borders, their Land, their Natural Resources and their People as best they can, which is their Right under the UN Charter of 26 June 1945, Article 1, Article 51 and Article 73, including all the relevant instruments of United Nations and International Law
7th March 1987 ------ The Lado Provisional Government, was formally proclaimed and established on 7 March 1987 in Arua - Aru in Lado ( Africa ),
The British Attitude continues to be well seen within to influence the other Eurpean Nations towards Lado in Africa
1999 -- The latest evidence is in 1999, when the European Governments have in the pretext to destroy African Unity which was giving African people a Leeway to true Independence , Politically, Economically and Socially. They simply concocted the African Union based on the European Union and created something called NEPAD ( New Partnership for African Development ), which officially is supposed to be a Partnership between Africa and Europeans. " This is what one can only call simply a devised New system of Domination on the African People and to control the African Minds " .
The British, who have been sharing the Occupation of Lado with Belgium since 1947, are doing everything in their Power, and are using their Position in International Affairs and in the UN Security Council, to kill the State of Lado, and they are using their former African Colonies, their African Protectorates and their African Territories to do just that .
Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair's African Creation, the " Africa Commission ' has been set in motion with the main objective to finish off and Annihilate the State of Lado and to erase all trace of the Lado People from World Records .This is NO SECREET to a mindful Person . The Government Policy of His New Labour Party for Africa is no different from the former Old Labour Party under the Predecessor led by Rt . Hon. Clement Richard Atlee as the Prime Minister of Britain and during His Reign in 1948 ,The Agofe / King , Atabua of Lado was Assassinated
The Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Nigeria have been chosen to spearhead this Initiative, and in this capacity The Republic of South Africa and The Republic of Nigeria today have been appointed Britain ' s African Commissioner for NEPAD .
By doing so, the Right Honourable Mr. Blair is covering ' British Conspiracy ' under the , Cloak of African Affairs and pretending that the Slaughter of a Nation and an Entire People - the Nation State of Lado and the People of Lado - are merely an ' African Affair ' to be dealt with solely by the African Union ( AU ) .
20001 ------------ Lado sent a Petition to the UN Security Council and requested the UN Secretary General to act under Article 99 of the UN Charter . The Lado Provisional Government is requesting the Political and Diplomatic Support from and through the UN in order to avoid the inevitable War for the Independence of Lado and the Sovereignty of Lado ( Central Africa ) . All that , the People of Lado want and demand is the Right to Freedom and Liberty from the Intolerable Situation of Foreign Occupation of Lado .
Lado has never been Colonised, although Occupied, in contrast to so many other African States. And therefore, No one has any Legal Right to Occupy Lado. The Lado People, demand Independence of Lado and Sovereignty of Lado, and therefore to build up their Nation to Prosper in Peaceful co - existence with their neighbouring Countries, Congo - Zaire, Sudan, Uganda, CAR ( Central African Republic ), Kenya , Ethiopia and with all Nations of the World .
Year 2005 ----- up to ?------------- Incidences in year 2005 against Lendu people and Killings at Ariwara , Yei on Ladoland are of a few to mention yet . A Multination Force consisting of 11,000 troops from ' Nations of the Willing ' were seen making a swift move of insurgence to North Lado ( Central Africa ). Officially they were believed to supervise the ' Nairobi Agreement' of 9 January 2005 which is to bring Peace between the Rebel Forces SPLM ( Sudan People's Liberation Movement ) and the Sudan Government in Khartoum . However the Truth is that : there is no doubt that behind the move is the long - term Objective to Destroy Lado, the Lado State in Central Africa situated in the Great Lakes Region and in the Nile-Congo Watershed Region, which is falsely shown or shall be shown in future on the Map as Southern Sudan and DR Congo. But it is the Northern Territory of Lado ( " Equatoria and Ituri Province of Lado " since 1871 ) . Unfortunately for Lado and Fortunately for Britain , this Operation is being carried out " New Occupation of Lado " Under the UN Banner . " The UN is assisting those who have been Waging a War against the Lado Issue of Independence since 1947 " . It looks then UN Security Council refuses to implement the UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 and the UN General Assembly Resolution 43/47 of 22 November 1988, and which with a Majority Vote of the UN General Assembly can force the UN Security Council to abide to ", Britain is a Permanent Member of the Security anyway ! -- " Must have a say for Lado then in the course of time " . How long is it taking for Britain to let go Lado for her Freedom ------------- ? We do know that , in order to avoid having to fulfill the UN Resolutions and the Treaty, Britain and the US use the UN Charter, Article 12, for with this article they can block any issue that is not in their own interests from a vote among the membership countries in the UN Security Council itself.
11 March 2005 ------- Provisional Government of Lado asked once again the Agofe / King a Protest Letter to be sent to the UN Security Council, ( dated 11 March 2005 ) , The Security Council must Act . There is a Lack of International Recognition of the State of Lado as an Independent Sovereign State (Lado), and because of the Negligence of the International Community, and of the UN, anyone feels free to Loot and Kill in Lado
By refusing to allow the Independence and Sovereignty of LADO, Belgium and Britain are in Breach of The UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 ( XV ) of 14 December 1960 and the Article 1 and Article 73 of the UN Charter of 26 June 1945 and are the willing to see that the Holocaust of Lado continues under their Rule of Occupation . Now They are trying the best to rename Lado , The Southern Sudan Nation Build in the Years to come. They are hoping that should be done by 2011
GOD SAVE LADO !
By
Ronald Okuonzi Lulua
Member , Institute of Sudanic Studies ( ISS ) .
KINGDOM ( KAARI ) OF LADO ---- ( KL ) .
THE POLITICAL STRIFE OF LADO WITH THE NEIGHBOURING INDEPENDENT COUNTIRIES IN AFRICA : " THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA , DR CONGO AND THE REPUBLIC STATE OF SUDAN
NOTA BENE : SeeThe Map of Lado and the sorrounding Countries to it before The British illegally removed it off from the World Atlases and stretching it out to the same sorrounding Countries : Uganda ( British Protectorate ), DR Congo / Zaire ( Belgium colony ), Sudan ( Anglo - Egyptian Condominium
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1 ) BRITISH / UGANDA AND LADO RELATIONS " SINCE from 1947 "
When Lado the leader Agofe Atabua reached the military rank of Colonel, serving in the Kings African Rifles ( KAR ) 4th Regiment which was British, with headquaters in Bombo, Uganda , He went to fight for the British in Burma in 2° World War ( WWII ) with the 4th Regiment of the Kings Africans Rifles, which later was stationed in Jinja, Uganda.
The Lado leader resigned to carry out the Independence of Lado in 1947. He was replaced by a British Colonel called Alan Knight, As a man with humane feelings He was a sort of friendly to Africans : an Englishman, a rare case. The Lado leader was assassinated on 14th April 1948, because he asked USSR to raise the question of Lado at the UN in 1947, and the British found that was not the right thing to do. They said He was opening the eyes of many Africans and African countries.
This is because He became the chairman of African Chiefs in a conference which was held in Manchester in 1945, and Kwame Nkrumah ( whose first name was Francis ) became the secretary and Jomo Kenyatta ( whose real name was Johnston Kamau ) became assistant secretary.
This Conference was also known as the Pan African Association ( PAA ) What happened to PAA ? This was a frightening issue for the Americans and the British. Therefore He the Lado leader ( Atobua ) was assassinated. There was a 4 Year Lado - British war following the assassination of Atobua from 1948 to 1952. This Lado-British war was stopped by Sir Winston Churchill when he became Prime minister in 1951. But during the time of the assassination of Atabua in 1948, a Labour Government was in Power, led by Rt Hon Clement Richard Attlee as Prime minister of Britain. Not from far yesterdays there has been a Labour Government again, led by Rt Hon Anthony Charles Blair who has been believed to be doing all possible to save the Africans such as through formations of New Parties for African Development programmes .
The British keep Silent yet of having grabed the living today's Leader of Lado and was taken by force to Kings African Rifles in 1960 and commissioned as a Lieutenant in the third KAR,( 3rd regiment ) which was Scottish commanded, East African command, in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1961, He was taken to Sandhurst,( the Royal Military Academy in England ). He finished his studies there the same year, which was not an easy issue for the English, knowing it was his grandfather, who fought the British the most ( from 1914 -1919 and 1930-1937). He was taken back to the 3rd regiment in Nairobi, Kenya.
In 1962, while a Captain He was then taken to go and fight in Western Uganda by the border with Ruanda. At a place called Kisoro. After this, He was taken back to Nairobi and appointed High Commissioner ( KAR ). Today when you talk of High Commissioner you are talking diplomacy but militarily we should say High Adjutant of King African Rifles ( KAR.). He represented the British Imperial Chief of Staff in Nairobi. On march 1st 1962, He was appointed a full Colonel without passing through the rank of Major first and sent to command 4th Regiment ( KAR ) to Uganda. He took the job, to organize within 6 ? 9 months, the Uganda army for Independence which was due on 9th October 1962.. Uganda did not have an Army. They only had a regiment ( 4th Regiment of KAR ). They did not have a Ministry of Defence. So He had to organize and Head the Ministry of Defence in Uganda himself. So He did all that, under British Colonial adminstration . Colonel William (Shane ) who had served with his father in WW II in Burma became his Military Advisor. Before his coming He was serving as Chief of Staff in the British Protectorate of Uganda ( 4th regiment KAR ). There was no African He was dealing with. He was only dealing with Europeans. Everything was European in concept and so forth. That is why, He clashed with the British; and He was arrested on the 11th September 1962 judged at night and 12th September 1962 He was imprisoned for 7 years in Luzira maximum Prison ( next to the execution chamber Room 8 ). The reasons were all political in nature. The issue was: He was asked to sign that Lado should be passed into British Administration. He refused to sign it and for three weeks He was tortured in Luzira prison. In October, He organized with some of his soldiers ( 4th regiment KAR ) an Escape from the prison. That was in 1962. From then till now the present Leader of Lado is living in exile ( barring a brief period in 1971 from June to Nov and another period from January 1973 to April 1974 ). He is now in Exile for at least 40 years yet leading his people for the due independence for Lado .
2 ) Belgium / Congo ( Todays D R CONGO ) relatons with LADO ( since from 1894 )
THE COLONIAL AMBITION OF KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM / CONGO AND IN VIEW OF THE CREATED RELATIONS ESTABLISHED WITH LADO BRINGS ABOUT TO KNOW OF THE ROOTS OF CRISIS IN UGANDA , CONGO AND SUDAN .
KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM REIGN OVER SUDAN ( BAHR-EL-GAZA ) AND HIS AMBITION TO HAVE BROUGHT LADO UNDER HIS CONTROLL - " THEN FIGURED LADO ' S ENCLAVE ---( 1894 -1903 ) ".
Although of short - lived existence, King Leopold II of Belgium had ordered the Belgian troops to occupy the Land Territory Situated in vast Sudan African Region in an attempt of colonisation of Lado to full fill his last thirst of Colonisation and this last territory added was to be part of « Leopoldian Sudan », more known under the naming " Lado ' s Enclave ", and infact to become an integral part of Congo but not Sudan .
Indeed When in 1881, the revolt of Mahdists ( Religious Groups of Arab descedents ) ended in the loss of the control of Egypt over the Upper - Nile Sudan Regions , Leopold II viewed it as a great Opportunity to spread his Territory Conquest Ambitions to the River White Nile .
He therefore organised several Military expeditions for this purpose from 1881 starting from the Belgian - Congo Territory . King Leopold met with a fierce Resistence when the Belgian forces came into war Battle with the Lado Defence Forces . This war came to an ended with a Peace Agreement signed both by Lado and Belgium for a peaceful Cooperation signed on 28th September 1892 which entered in the International Convention Rules in which King Leopold accepted not to Exercise His Crown over the Sovereignity of Lado .
Commandant Fahd El Mula Aga ( a lugbara ) signed the treaty for Lado and for Belgium it was signed by Leutnant Milz who took the place of the Belgium Commandant Van Kerckhoven who died before arrival to WADELAI -( by then Capital CITY of LADO ).
This Agreement in short to say was recognised by the signature of two successive agreements ( in May 12 , then in August 14 , 1894 ), wherein the British Government declared , in the name of Egypt , to let King Leopold II have a territory called " Lado's enclave", Lado state which became Seperated from the Bahr el Gazal's State of Sudan Sudanese Province ( Bahr el Gazal at times called the " River of Gazelles "), and being bounded by the latitudes 5°30 ' N. and 30 ° W.
The Fachoda in Sudan State incident, which set British troops against French at the edge of the Nile, the Sovereign Power of Egypt on Sudan was however restored and Britain decidedly through Military intimidating , obliged Leopold II to give up Lado ' s Enclave in 1903, with the exception of Ituri / Uele - Wele , Mahagi regions of LADO . The south part of Lado was inturn ceded to Uganda which till today they call " West Nile " in Uganda . and the North of Lado attached to Bahr el Gazal . The towns of Juba and Yei etc ---- are town areas of North Lado .
Since this Division / Partion of Lado is up to now illegall , Lado accordingly in LAW is a Sovereign State with all full rights to Protect Herself : Land Territory and her Citizens ( Article 51 of U N Charter ) from any Foreign Agressions even be attacked by the Mighty Britain and the like .
By the Actions of Britain against Lado since from 1903 till today Britain is therefore still occupying Lado Militarily and so doing through these African Countries who by their Virtue being under the Supreme Command of the British Crown is Occupying Lado . You can be independent Country but without Sovereignty you and your Country remain a Colony or you are still Colonised on This Planet EATH . The British Diplomacy today , following the U N resolution (( cf : UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December 1960 and the UN General Assembly Resolution 43/47 of 22 November 1988 ) is frenetically to re - introduce another notion to present now that Sudan State must be seperated in two Countries : North Arab Moslem Sudan and South Black Christian Sudan . But the Real Truth remains still to live the North Lado to Bahr el Gazal and now to be called a New created Southern Sudan State is inorder to remove Lado State Immage . This is the Trying Diplomacy of the British always against Lado . Lado must be under a new controlled State as Southern Sudan State still for the British Interest .
The FLAG ISSUE FOR LADO by Belgium
INFACT
Colonel Colmant of Belgium imagined for the territories of Congo and Lado a flag and a coat of arms being inspired by the Congolese flag. The coat of arms is the copy of the flag augmented with the personal coat of arms of Leopold II as always indicated
The blue colour and the yellow stars are directly inspired by the Congolese flag, so reminding the link with the Independent State of Congo. They are combined with St Andrew's cross, or cross of Burgundy, in memory of the Company of Oostende which financed the first Belgian colonial expeditions.
N.B -- But It is to be noticed that neither this coat of arms, nor the flag, were officially recognized.
LADO IS STILL IN FIGHTING WAR WITH BRITAIN FOR " OF HER FREEDOM RIGHTS OF SOVEREIGNITY " THEY IS NO ESCAPE FOR LADO ON THIS ISSUE .
3 ) The Angolo - Egyptian Sudan ( Todays Republic State of Sudan ) relations with LADO ( Since from 1899 )
Lado as moden Nation State was founded on 9th May 864 A.D
Here are some specifications to follow very carefully in the Literature please .
Dinka people of Sudan are not in anyway Sudanic Ladoans at all . Ladoans are descendents of the 29 tribes who all live in Lado land ( see LADO on the World Maps Before the second World war .)
Bahr el Ghazal of the Sudan State
Location of Bahr el Ghazal in Sudan
The Bahr el Ghazal in Arabic language is both a River and a Region of southwestern Republic of Sudan State . The Region takes its name from the River. This River flows about 80O - 810 km east to Lake No where it joins the Bahr el Jebel to form the White Nlie sometimes called ( Bahr el Abiad ). The region in itself today , for the Administrative conditions in the Sudan State consists of the States of North Bahr el Ghazal , West Bahr al Ghazal , Lakes and Warab . Bahr el Ghazal borders Central African Republic to the West and Lado to the South
The population of this Region is mainly by the Dinka people,and others are the Nilotic Tribes : the Shilluk and the Nuer and Jo Luo and the Acholi and Lotuhu .
Bahr el Gazal historically was constantly subject to raids by the Fur and Arab Slave traders from the neighbouring Region of Darfur . This Slave trade was apparently put to end in 1864 by the Khedive of Egypt but soon re - emerged under Native Merchants, who set themselves up as Princes who created their own individual Soldiers . The most powerful known of them became of Al - Zubayr .
Al - Zubayr fought and defeated a joint Turkish / Egyptian force sent to Bahr el Ghazal in 1873 . However the Khedive compromised the defeat and made Bahr el Ghazal a nominal province of Egypt, with Al-Zubayr as its Governor.
Bahr el Gazal as the region was later incorporated into Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and became the ninth Province after being split from Equatoria ( LADO ) in 1948 , became a Province, and then State, under the Republic of the State Sudan today .
In 1996 the Region was divided into the four current Districts as part of an Administrative re - organisation of the Country - Sudan State .
Bahr el Gazar has been affected by civil war for many years. It has ever been a scene of fighting in the First Sudanese Civil War - AnyaAnya wars against the State of Sudan . The fighting group leader by then here was General Joseph Lagu a Ladoan of Madi Tribe in Lado .
In 1982 the Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) was formed there by John Garang of Dinka TRIBE to fight the Arab-dominated Government in Khartoum
This became known as the Second Sudanese Civil War . A conflict which continued and lasted until 2003 and killed more than three million people. A majority of the population of the region is internally uprooted or displaced and largely most of them are refugees now in neighboring countries especially now settling in Lado Land .( Lado Occupied ). The British Politricks now and knowing that Sudan State in International Law Affairs is still tied down within the British Dominium keeps control over the Nothern Territory of Lado where they are establishing by force abd claiming JUBA in Lado becomes the Capital City of the New to be created Christian Southern Sudan Nation State by 2011 to replace the Lado Kingdom State . Lado continues to fight for Freedom with Britain and her ally countries sorrounding Lado .
This gives the Military episodes picture now in this Region of Africa to stop the world to know of Lado existance in Africa till todate .
Report by
Ronald . LULUA
The Restoration of The State of Lado known by the British - Uganda as West Nile
THEY SAY HISTORY IS NOT OURS - WHY ?
The tricks perpetrated by the global masters come in various shapes and variations, but they all take their root in the one core truth : slave masters need slaves.
The enslaved have no need to be forced into slavery, in fact they have a desperate need to be freed from their bondage, even though at times, they do not recognize this. Generally, due to the effective reprogramming of their minds, into becoming bearers of a mentality of inferiority and self - hate.
Slave owners on the other hand, require someone to do all the dirty work, they themselves are not willing undertake, in order to generate wealth.
These two facts are the basic pillars in the repression and genocide we suffer and have suffered in Africa. They are the ideological basis for the processes of slavery, colonization, neo-colonization and today`s globalization process, which is in its essence re-colonization.
Western Europe - I include the USA under that heading - didn`t just work hard and get prosperous. The American Indians were murdered and robbed of their land. Then Africans were enslaved and forced to work for free in the so - called new world.
Following this, Europe attempted to take the land of the Africans, through military force and establish new European societies, intending to use those Africans who survived the onslaught as slave labour.
Colonization became a process of military occupation of African land, forced labour of Africans for Western Interests and mass indoctrination of Africans through 1) the school systems and 2) religious propaganda. It became a policy of theft, of African raw materials and intellectual property, as well as a means to create markets for Western goods. It was here the current African dependency on the Western world was enforced upon us.
In Asia the processes of domination, brutilization and theft were practiced with a similar barbarism.The same in South America. No corner of the world was safe from Western Un-civilization
It was the " primitive accumulation " of capital through slavery that built up the capital base needed for industrialization. It was the colonization process that supplied the raw materials needed by Europe to complete its industrialization process. In effect supplying the real foundation for the current Western affluence and power.
Preceding the official initiation of the process of African colonization in the 1800´s, the Western European Industrial worker threatened outright revolt.
In order to maintain social order the capitalist elite of Europe agreed to hand over a little more of the profits to the worker, guarantee a minimum of social and economic security and the worker agreed to relinquish the revolutionary socialist project of transforming society and instead focus on getting their piece of the pie, through representation - within the capitalist system - by the unions and their political offspring. It was a compromise that gave birth to the Western European welfare state and Western social democracy.
It is important to understand that this was an internal class struggle, both capitalists and socialists were in agreement in the thinking, that the rest of " uncivilized " world should be colonized and under the guidance of an enlightened Europe, taught the ways of civilization. They merely differed on which class in society should benefit from this, the worker or the factory owner.
The entire Marxist economic theory is based on classical British economic theory - the basis of exploitative capitalism . In short the Marxists believed that the wealth amassed through the processes of production, as well as the means of production should be in the hands of the working class, instead of being monopolized by the capital owning class.
Generating this wealth required colonization, which 19th century socialists where in favour of. The second communist International in 1907 declared in a majority resolution that "under a socialist regime colonization could be a force for civilization."
Though it is true European socialism both before and after this resolution rejected this train of thought, there is NO DENYING that the imperial thought, is/was part of the historical baggage which European socialism is/was a carrier of and which formed/forms its practice. Especially the socialism that developed within the Western colonial powers.
The fact of the matter is that there is NO WAY, any promise of wealth, freedom or democracy offered to us by the West has any truth to it, regardless of whether it is from the Western political right-wing or left-wing . For Western wealth, freedom and democracy is based on our African lack of the same, it was then and still is today.
All the wonderful declaration of human rights, democratic constitutions and humanistic ideals of the West were never intended for the non - European portion of the world and especially not for Africans. They have never been applied to us, in the dealings of the West with Africa.
The ideas make sense, Justice, Liberty, Prosperity, Equity etc. But when these declarations were written, people from Africa weren`t considered human. That is why the same people who spoke of universal human rights could own slaves without seriously pondering the contradiction and why people who advocated socialist revolution could be in favour of a process of colonization that murdered Africans by the millions, e.g. the Belgian colonization of Congo.
As long as the myth of European enlightenment and the false history the West teaches itself, about the motivations of its actions, through the past 500 years is propagated, the West cannot change. As long as Africans accept, this version of history as world history - a world of which we are a part - we accept ourselves as inferiors . In Lado ( Heart of Africa ) we do not tolerate this Behaviour since from 1891 till todate . When we talk , the same people say we are Bad people , yet we say the truth , and that is why they say we must be controlled which they have been doing and still go on with their Monkey Tricks occupyimg us with Impunity through their Military Mighty Force . The result till todate is " LADO OCCUPIED IN THE HEART OF AFRICA . "
HEREBY IS THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESENT AGOFE " KING " OF LADO'S MESSAGE TO THE WORLD ABOUT THE SITUATION FACING LADO IN AFRICA :
Lado News - Message From King John Bart Agami, Agofe of Lado:
The State of Lado is on the Road to Independence...
The present turmoil and unrest in several African Countries, with Kenya as an immediate example of recent, is naturally disturbing and sad because many People are affected by Death, Violence and Loss of Property.
However, according to the Agofe of Lado, King John Bart Agami, in the midst of all this Misery and Injustice against the African Population, there is a glimmer of Hope for the African Peoples and Countries in shaping their own Future.
The Agofe, Onzima II of Lado, has been fighting an untiring battle to put the State of Lado in Central Africa back on the map since the forbidden name of "Lado" was erased from the Maps of the World by the European Colonial Masters.
Lado kept which is still in Stranglehold of Joint Illegal Occupation since 1947 -------
Since 1947 Lado - the "Lado Enclave" or "Equatoria" - which is situated in the Great Lakes Region in the Upper Nile Valley, has been kept in a Stranglehold by the European Powers Britain and Belgium who have joined in an Occupation of Lado.
The Joint Illegal Occupation of Lado by Britain and Belgium in 1947 has made the State of Lado into two Cultural Sectors: :
(a) the French Speaking Lado to the West (Belgian),
(b) the English Speaking Lado to the East (British)
Here it is noted that The Act of Occupation alone is not consistent with the Treaty of Berlin 26 February 1885, Articles 6, 12, 15, including 34. However, the British/Belgian Occupation of Lado was not translated into complete Colonial or Protectorate Status by Treaty of 1892 signed by the Agofe of Lado with Belgium for International Relations .
European Colonial Masters Cannot Inherit the State of Lado
Consequently, the Former Colonial and Protectorate Countries of Belgium and Britain cannot inherit the State of Lado, which still exists as a Political Entity and as a Nation State of Lado. However, it is a Fact that the State of Lado is an Occupied Territory, first by the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) on 26 May 1871, and by Belgium-Britain jointly from 15 May 1947.
The King emphasizes that Lado People have never accepted Foreign Rule, and that Lado is the only African Nation that never signed over her Sovereignty to Colonial Powers.
By standing firm and demanding our Right to Exist and to be Recognized as a Sovereign Nation State by the International Community, Lado has stood and stands out as a Beacon and an Example for the People all over Africa who will no longer tolerate Suppression and Enslavement in their own Homelands.
After four hundred years of Slavery (during 1440-1840), Degradation and Poverty, the African People were left in a State of Shock. And it is little wonder that they chose to lull themselves into Apathy in order just to try to Survive But seen today the Unrest in Africa howver is a true and as a sign that the African People are Awakening from their Sleep, and are taking charge of their own destinies.
African People are Ridding Themselves of their Ruling Elites
What we are witnessing now is that the African People are ridding themselves of the Ruling Elite, who have Betrayed their People, and who have only been kept in Power with the massive Support of the Old Colonial Powers today ; mainly Britain, France and Belgium, who have contributed heavily with Military Expertise and Weaponry. And not least to the pockets and Foreign Bank Accounts of their African Leaders. . The Neighbouring or countries surraunding Lado ; that is to say : Uganda , Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo are tuned to that to controll Lado for this European powers till todate
In this way, and by creating a Ruling Class chosen from a favoured group or a Tribe/Clan, who got Positions in Power, the former Slave Traders have managed to Divide and Rule and ensure that the African People have been kept Enslaved in their own Homelands long since the lucrative Slave Trade was Abolished.
This Policy has led to needless Massacres and Bloodbaths and Tragedies as the one which happened in Rwanda, which are often referred to as 'Ethnic Cleansing'. However, this covers over Atrocities and gross Human Rights Violations by Government Security Forces who are used to quell any sign of Resistance or Criticism against the Ruling Elite.
Through Brutal Force these Ruling Elites have managed to keep their Populations in a state of constant Fear and Obedient Silence", says King John Bart Agami.
Ruling Elites have been Rigging Election Results
Up till now these Elites have even got away with the Rigging of Election Results, which have not only taken place in our neighbouring country Kenya, but also has been the Order of the Day in Ugandan Politics where the President still reigns Supreme with the Backing of Britain and Britain's Scandinavian Allies who will gladly Support Uganda to suit their own Interests .
Uganda has for many years been the 'Darling' of the Anglo-American Powers and their Scandinavian Allies, who are Running and Controlling the Ugandan Administrative System, and in this way are in a position to use Colonial Uganda as a Stepping Stone to take over and usurp Lado's Natural Resources and Drive out the Inhabitants: The Lado People who have become Refugees and 'Displaced Persons' in their own Homeland.
This situation has become Intolerable to the People of Lado, and they have started to take matters into their own Hands, and to Stand Up for their Rights and for what is rightfully theirs.
Like their Neighbours in Northern Uganda, the Local Lado People have Bravely Protested and Fought and are fighting the Ugandan Government, who had made a Deal for the Sale of Virgin Forest Land to a Canadian Lumber Company.
The Lado People successfully stopped and are still fighting the Devastation to their Natural Resources which would have Laid or will lay Waste valuable woodlands into Arid Desert if Big Business had or will have its way .
Success Stories Throughout Lado to Stop Big Business Plans
Other Success Stories throughout Lado, such as the Lado initiative to stop Oil Drilling, the UK Indians' Plans of Sugar Plantations and the Colonial and Corporate Plan to turn Lado into a Giant Pig and GMO Soya Beans Farming Area, which would have resulted in Widespread Pollution, have given the Lado People the Courage and the Determination to fight for what they Believe in. Meaning : That is the Territorial Integrity of Lado and the Sovereignty of Lado and the Independence The Days of Imperialism and Colonial Power are gone, and a New Age of Freedom and Independence is Emerging. We want Freedom of Lado.
The Powers who have held Command of the World for the last four hundred years, are losing their Hold of the World, and the African Nations want to Write their own History.
For much too long the Oppressors have Occupied, Raped, and Erased the African History, but the Lado People are beginning to find and recognize their Rich Cultural Heritage as the Ancient Kingdom Created on the Remnants of the Old Egypt as early as 700 BC, when Lado was founded under the name "Ladoland" and on 9 May 847 AD when the Modern Lado was Established."
The Restoration of The State of Lado
Lado People will Stand Firm to see that the Lado Sovereign Nation State is Restored with its Original Boundaries from 1887-1907, and the State of Lado is Recognized by the U.N. and the World Community . Here concludes Agofe King John Bart Agami of Lado 's Message