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| Baloch families in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada are holding a Banner at the rally against Pakistan and Iran's continued violation of human rights in Occupied Balochistan. Photo By Aziz Baloch |
Vancouver Rally Report
By Aziz Baloch
June 11, 2008
On behalf of the Balochistan Human Rights Council of Canada, the Baloch community of Vancouver would like to inform the peace loving people of
Canada gathered here today and the human rights organizations about the atrocities and human rights violations unleashed upon Baloch nation by the
army, paramilitary units and fascist clerics in Pakistan and Iran.
This is not the first time that the Pakistani and Iranian governments have jointly conspired and conducted military operations against the Baloch people
in the Iranian and Pakistani occupied Balochistan.
During the bloody military operation of 1973, Pakistani occupied Balochistan went through a phase of genocide with a loss of 5000 civilians including
women and children. During this particular military operation, that lasted four years – 1973 – 1977, Iranian fighter jets and pilots were used to bomb the
villages inside the Pakistani Balochistan territory.
While the Pakistan army's military operation is on full swing in the Pakistani Balochistan, Iranian fascist clerics are busy hanging Baloch youth on the
streets in Iran. Thousands of Baloch youth have disappeared, tortured and killed and more than a million tribal Baloch families from Bugti and Marri
areas have been displaced and their livelihood destroyed. According to an HRCP report that recently came out in the press, 1.5 million internally
displaced people are living in inhuman conditions in refugee camps on the very soil of their motherland.
Today a young Baloch, Gholam Haider Raisani is in a Quetta Jail (capital city of Pakistani Balochistan) and the present govt of Pakistan wants to
extradite him to Iran where he will be hanged publicly. He will face torture before being hung by Iranian regimes without a trial. Therefore Baloch people
are sitting in a hunger strike in front of the press club in Quetta, to stop the extradition of Gholam Haider Raisani Baloch to fundamentalist regime of
Iran. Hundreds of Baloch youth had been hung in public and thousands more are waiting for the orders of execution in Iranian jails.
In March 2005, Pakistani army officers in Sui, Balochistan raped Pakistani female physician Dr. Shazia Khalid by an army captain. A Baloch leader, a
former governor and premier of Balochistan and powerful tribal chief of Bugti tribe, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti demanded that military that the officer
should be brought to the court and justice should be served. But President Pervez Musharrraf (He is still president of Pakistan) himself acquitted the
rapist army officer without any trial. Such undemocratic rulers, which forcefully occupied Balochistan in March 1948, are involved in oppressing the
Baloch nation for the last 60 years.
General (retired) Pervez Musharrraf started the 5th military operation in Balochistan against the Baloch nation and the Pakistani generals used United
States military aid, which was clearly meant to be used against "war on terror", but instead they were used against the Baloch people. Prominent
Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, former governor/premier of Balochistan, and later Mir Balach Marri (former provincial assembly members of
Balochistan) both were assassinated by the Pakistani army. From March 2005 till today more than 7000 political, social, and human rights activist have
disappeared, been kidnapped, tortured and are being killed. Just recently in June 2008 Pakistani intelligences arrested 70 Bugti tribesmen in Chaman,
Balochistan and 200 more Bugti tribesmen have disappeared since the 18 February 2008 general elections in Pakistan.
As I speak right now there are three hunger strike camps in front of Quetta Press Club in Balochistan demanding the release of their loved ones. The
undemocratic state of Pakistan is exploiting the rich natural resources of Balochistan for the last sixty years at gunpoint. Baloch people are tired of living
under such tyranny and atrocities; Balochistan is the most backward and deprived province of Pakistan. Therefore, a young Baloch senator Sanaullah
Baloch last Friday June 2008 resigned from his post as member of senate due to the Pakistani government's continued oppression against its people.
In May 28, 1998 Pakistan tested its nuclear weapons in Chagai, Balochistan, a deadly nuclear test destroyed that region facing the worst draught there
were no crops to be grown. Baloch families, particularly newborn babies, were born with serious health problems in those regions. Native Baloch
tribesmen's were displaced without any compensation - they have lost their homes, livestock and lands.
The situation is similar in Iranian occupied Balochistan. Since 1928 till today Baloch genocide is going on at all levels – cultural, economic, and
political and of human lives because their cultural, social, religious, economic, and political rights are being denied. There is a systematic
discrimination against Baloch and other minorities such as Kurds, Azaris, Arabs, Bahais, Christians, Jews and other minorities in Iran. Pakistani
nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan and military generals are clearly involved in transferring nuclear weapons technology to Iran where after
Pakistan; the second Islamic nuclear bomb is secretly being built to further erode the peace and stability in the region.
According to Amnesty International reports an eye witness saw Roya Sarani, (innocent Baloch girl) aged 11 being shot dead on the streets of Zahedan
at about 05:30 pm on 16, May 2007 after leaving for a school examination by the Law enforcement force (LEF)… Ladies and gentlemen here is the
picture of the innocent 11-year-old girl. The second story is about a young Baloch human rights activist from "Voice of Justice of Young People's Society"
… Yaqub Mehrnehad, who was arrested on May 2007 after attending a meeting at a provincial office of culture and Islamic guidance where governor of
Zahedan himself was present. Today Yaqub Mehrnehad is facing the death sentence in an Iranian jail.
Both the Islamic states of Iran and Pakistan are collaborating with each other, suppressing the Baloch in both the occupied parts of Balochistan.
Baloch people are appealing to the international community to take a notice of these atrocities and oppression, they have been ruling Balochistan from
the barrel of the gun, treating Balochistan as their colony where Baloch nation is treated as a third class citizen on their own native soil.
Behalf of the Balochistan Human Rights Council of Canada we appeal to our democratic government of Canada, the honorable Prime Minister Mr.
Stephen Harper, human rights organizations and the United Nations to intervene and save the Baloch nation from genocide and annihilation in
Pakistan and Iran. Help us by stopping military aid to Pakistan and putting an end to Iran's nuclear weapons program, which we believe will be used
against Baloch civilians, and neighboring countries.
Related Link: >> Harper asked to intervene to help Baluch people
By Aziz Baloch
June 11, 2008
On behalf of the Balochistan Human Rights Council of Canada, the Baloch community of Vancouver would like to inform the peace loving people of
Canada gathered here today and the human rights organizations about the atrocities and human rights violations unleashed upon Baloch nation by the
army, paramilitary units and fascist clerics in Pakistan and Iran.
This is not the first time that the Pakistani and Iranian governments have jointly conspired and conducted military operations against the Baloch people
in the Iranian and Pakistani occupied Balochistan.
During the bloody military operation of 1973, Pakistani occupied Balochistan went through a phase of genocide with a loss of 5000 civilians including
women and children. During this particular military operation, that lasted four years – 1973 – 1977, Iranian fighter jets and pilots were used to bomb the
villages inside the Pakistani Balochistan territory.
While the Pakistan army's military operation is on full swing in the Pakistani Balochistan, Iranian fascist clerics are busy hanging Baloch youth on the
streets in Iran. Thousands of Baloch youth have disappeared, tortured and killed and more than a million tribal Baloch families from Bugti and Marri
areas have been displaced and their livelihood destroyed. According to an HRCP report that recently came out in the press, 1.5 million internally
displaced people are living in inhuman conditions in refugee camps on the very soil of their motherland.
Today a young Baloch, Gholam Haider Raisani is in a Quetta Jail (capital city of Pakistani Balochistan) and the present govt of Pakistan wants to
extradite him to Iran where he will be hanged publicly. He will face torture before being hung by Iranian regimes without a trial. Therefore Baloch people
are sitting in a hunger strike in front of the press club in Quetta, to stop the extradition of Gholam Haider Raisani Baloch to fundamentalist regime of
Iran. Hundreds of Baloch youth had been hung in public and thousands more are waiting for the orders of execution in Iranian jails.
In March 2005, Pakistani army officers in Sui, Balochistan raped Pakistani female physician Dr. Shazia Khalid by an army captain. A Baloch leader, a
former governor and premier of Balochistan and powerful tribal chief of Bugti tribe, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti demanded that military that the officer
should be brought to the court and justice should be served. But President Pervez Musharrraf (He is still president of Pakistan) himself acquitted the
rapist army officer without any trial. Such undemocratic rulers, which forcefully occupied Balochistan in March 1948, are involved in oppressing the
Baloch nation for the last 60 years.
General (retired) Pervez Musharrraf started the 5th military operation in Balochistan against the Baloch nation and the Pakistani generals used United
States military aid, which was clearly meant to be used against "war on terror", but instead they were used against the Baloch people. Prominent
Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, former governor/premier of Balochistan, and later Mir Balach Marri (former provincial assembly members of
Balochistan) both were assassinated by the Pakistani army. From March 2005 till today more than 7000 political, social, and human rights activist have
disappeared, been kidnapped, tortured and are being killed. Just recently in June 2008 Pakistani intelligences arrested 70 Bugti tribesmen in Chaman,
Balochistan and 200 more Bugti tribesmen have disappeared since the 18 February 2008 general elections in Pakistan.
As I speak right now there are three hunger strike camps in front of Quetta Press Club in Balochistan demanding the release of their loved ones. The
undemocratic state of Pakistan is exploiting the rich natural resources of Balochistan for the last sixty years at gunpoint. Baloch people are tired of living
under such tyranny and atrocities; Balochistan is the most backward and deprived province of Pakistan. Therefore, a young Baloch senator Sanaullah
Baloch last Friday June 2008 resigned from his post as member of senate due to the Pakistani government's continued oppression against its people.
In May 28, 1998 Pakistan tested its nuclear weapons in Chagai, Balochistan, a deadly nuclear test destroyed that region facing the worst draught there
were no crops to be grown. Baloch families, particularly newborn babies, were born with serious health problems in those regions. Native Baloch
tribesmen's were displaced without any compensation - they have lost their homes, livestock and lands.
The situation is similar in Iranian occupied Balochistan. Since 1928 till today Baloch genocide is going on at all levels – cultural, economic, and
political and of human lives because their cultural, social, religious, economic, and political rights are being denied. There is a systematic
discrimination against Baloch and other minorities such as Kurds, Azaris, Arabs, Bahais, Christians, Jews and other minorities in Iran. Pakistani
nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadir Khan and military generals are clearly involved in transferring nuclear weapons technology to Iran where after
Pakistan; the second Islamic nuclear bomb is secretly being built to further erode the peace and stability in the region.
According to Amnesty International reports an eye witness saw Roya Sarani, (innocent Baloch girl) aged 11 being shot dead on the streets of Zahedan
at about 05:30 pm on 16, May 2007 after leaving for a school examination by the Law enforcement force (LEF)… Ladies and gentlemen here is the
picture of the innocent 11-year-old girl. The second story is about a young Baloch human rights activist from "Voice of Justice of Young People's Society"
… Yaqub Mehrnehad, who was arrested on May 2007 after attending a meeting at a provincial office of culture and Islamic guidance where governor of
Zahedan himself was present. Today Yaqub Mehrnehad is facing the death sentence in an Iranian jail.
Both the Islamic states of Iran and Pakistan are collaborating with each other, suppressing the Baloch in both the occupied parts of Balochistan.
Baloch people are appealing to the international community to take a notice of these atrocities and oppression, they have been ruling Balochistan from
the barrel of the gun, treating Balochistan as their colony where Baloch nation is treated as a third class citizen on their own native soil.
Behalf of the Balochistan Human Rights Council of Canada we appeal to our democratic government of Canada, the honorable Prime Minister Mr.
Stephen Harper, human rights organizations and the United Nations to intervene and save the Baloch nation from genocide and annihilation in
Pakistan and Iran. Help us by stopping military aid to Pakistan and putting an end to Iran's nuclear weapons program, which we believe will be used
against Baloch civilians, and neighboring countries.
Related Link: >> Harper asked to intervene to help Baluch people
Balochistan: A rally against the human rights
violations
Baloch families in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada will hold a rally against Pakistan and Iran's continued violation of human rights in Occupied
Balochistan. The rally seeks to draw the attention of the the international community towards the persecution of Baluch people at the hands of the
Islamic Republics of Pakistan and Iran.
"What is happening in Baluchistan is against International Laws and the United Nations Charters of Human Rights," said Aziz Baloch one of the
organizers of the protest rally.
In the Pakistani part of Occupied (Eastern) Balochistan the army, intelligence agencies and police arrested and tortured more than 7,000 human
rights and political activists since the start of a brutal military operations in March 2005. Scores of them are feared killed. Tens of thousands of Bugti
and Marri tribesmen have been forced to leave their pastoral lands. Likewise, in Iraniani Occupied (Western) Baluchistan, Baluch youths are being
publicly hang, sent to jail without trial, and tortured.
Pakistan is using Baluchistan for testing its deadly nuclear weapons and other military activities. Vast tracts of land in Baluchistan have been turned
into a dumping ground for nuclear waste and the international community has been kept in dark. Livelihood of thousands of nomadic Baloch has
been destroyed in that region because of nuclear test that Pakistan conducted on May 1998. Crops can no longer be grown with onset of drought.
Pakistan failed to compensate the affected families which is a violation of international law.
In contrast to Baloch protests against the nuclear weapons, the dominant Punjab province, who control the the country's brutal army, celebrate May
28 as a Great Day. They distributes sweets, further rubbing salt on the wounds of the Baloch and make a mockery of their miserable condition.
Please join to help the Baloch families affected by Pakistan's nuclear tests and military operations.
When: June 11, 2008 Time: 12:00 – 02:00 p.m.
Where: Front of Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby Street, in front of University of British Columbia Robson Square.
Balochistan Human Rights Council of Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia
Organizer: Aziz Baloch e-mail:
violations
Baloch families in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada will hold a rally against Pakistan and Iran's continued violation of human rights in Occupied
Balochistan. The rally seeks to draw the attention of the the international community towards the persecution of Baluch people at the hands of the
Islamic Republics of Pakistan and Iran.
"What is happening in Baluchistan is against International Laws and the United Nations Charters of Human Rights," said Aziz Baloch one of the
organizers of the protest rally.
In the Pakistani part of Occupied (Eastern) Balochistan the army, intelligence agencies and police arrested and tortured more than 7,000 human
rights and political activists since the start of a brutal military operations in March 2005. Scores of them are feared killed. Tens of thousands of Bugti
and Marri tribesmen have been forced to leave their pastoral lands. Likewise, in Iraniani Occupied (Western) Baluchistan, Baluch youths are being
publicly hang, sent to jail without trial, and tortured.
Pakistan is using Baluchistan for testing its deadly nuclear weapons and other military activities. Vast tracts of land in Baluchistan have been turned
into a dumping ground for nuclear waste and the international community has been kept in dark. Livelihood of thousands of nomadic Baloch has
been destroyed in that region because of nuclear test that Pakistan conducted on May 1998. Crops can no longer be grown with onset of drought.
Pakistan failed to compensate the affected families which is a violation of international law.
In contrast to Baloch protests against the nuclear weapons, the dominant Punjab province, who control the the country's brutal army, celebrate May
28 as a Great Day. They distributes sweets, further rubbing salt on the wounds of the Baloch and make a mockery of their miserable condition.
Please join to help the Baloch families affected by Pakistan's nuclear tests and military operations.
When: June 11, 2008 Time: 12:00 – 02:00 p.m.
Where: Front of Vancouver Art Gallery 750 Hornby Street, in front of University of British Columbia Robson Square.
Balochistan Human Rights Council of Canada
Vancouver, British Columbia
Organizer: Aziz Baloch e-mail:
May 28, 20008. Members of Baloch Human Right council in Canada protesting on the 10 anniversary of Pakistani detonation of Islamic bomb in Pakistani occupied
Balochistan.
Balochistan.
| Baluch families in Toronto protest Pakistan nuclear tests. That Pakistan may not exist for long was clearly visible as a former prime minister, with bin Laden links, celebrated the tragic event |
Press Release
CANADA : May 30, 2008 -- TORONTO: Baluch families in Canada on Wednesday demonstrated in Toronto against the nuclear tests in Occupied
Baluchistan ten years ago and demanded of the international community to bring the Pakistan Army to justice.. The aggrieved families distributed
pamphlets explaining the plight of the Baloch people in Pakistan and Iran. “ The Islamic fundamentalists and their uniformed brethren, the Pakistani
army, rejoiced the testing of the first Islamic bomb,” said Zafar Baloch, a leader of the Baluch Human Rights Council of Canada.
“The foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran sent his greetings to the Pakistani government of the time while the world leaders were shocked
and pleaded for sanctions against Pakistan,” he said. Imtiaz Baloch, another activist said the tragic event was followed by further tests in the Chagai
district of Balochistan devastating all life form, including the livelihood of the nomadic Baloch tribesmen. He said tens of thousands of Baluch
tribemsmen who were forced by the army to leave their ancestral pastoral lands and migrate to other areas. “In the last ten years, Baluchistan has
become Pakistan ’s frontline testing ground for advance nuclear warhead carrying missile technology borrowed from China and North Korea,” Imtiaz
Baloch said. Zafar Baloch was of the view that the WMDs being developed in Pakistan today are part of the Chinese hegemonic design of
expansionism in the region to control the energy centers, which include the Deep Sea Port Development of Gwadar in Balochistan, the gateway to oil
and gas reserves in Central Asia and the Middle East .
“The local inhabitants of Balochistan are being forcefully displaced and slaughtered through a brutal military operation so that their resources and
land stays in the hands of the Pakistan Army for exploitation and military adventures,” said Imtiaz Baloch. The Baluch families in Toronto were carrying
the pictures of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, former chief minister and governor of Baluchistan, who was killed in an army operation as he protested the
exploitation of Baluch resources at the hands of the dominant Punjabi. The families raised slogans against nuclear radiation and demanded that
father of the so-called Islamic Bomb, A.Q. Khan be brought to justice.
The Toronto Baluch protesters also condemned the unspoken Berlin Wall that divides baluch families living in Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan. Jay
Askani said the situation in the Iranian occupied Balochistan is getting worse where public hanging of Baloch youth has become a common practice
of the Islamic regime. “Iran ’s nuclear program is based on the technology that was secretly passed on to them by Pakistani military generals and A.
Q. Khan,” Askani said.. Canadian citizens showed a keen interest in the goings-on in Baluchistan and the local Omni TV covered the protest in its
news. “The rally was aimed to to save the world from terrorism and nuclear catastrophe,” Imtiaz Baluch said. Similar protests were held in
Washington DC, Quetta, Karachi, Gwadur, Chagai. In contrast to the Baluch protests the ruling Punjabis, once again celebrated the event as Yom-
Takbir or Great Day. Pakistan's former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, who is believed to be close to bin Laden led the celebrations in the military
stronghold of Punjab.
Natives protest, but pro-bin Laden ex-premier
celebrates Pakistan nukes.
celebrates Pakistan nukes.