<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Rhodesia" id="mwASE" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Southern Rhodesia">Southern Rhodesia</a>'s Prime Minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Smith" id="mwASI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ian Smith">Ian Smith</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia's_Unilateral_Declaration_of_Independence" id="mwASM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence">unilaterally declares the colony independent</a> as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_unrecognized_states_and_dependencies" id="mwASQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies">unrecognised state</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodesia" id="mwASU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Rhodesia">Rhodesia</a>.