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A Letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan

December 20th, 2005

His Excellency Mr. Kofi Annan,
Secretary-General of the United Nations
The United Nations, New York, NY

Your Excellency,

On behalf of Baloch Society Of North America (BSO-NA) USA, I would like to bring your urgent attention to the
deteriorating situation and gross human rights violations in Balochistan where Pakistani dictators have started the
5th military operation against the innocent Baloch people, using US gunship helicopters and F-16 jets, to crush their
peaceful struggle against the occupation of their land and exploitation of their resources by Pakistan for the past 58
years.

According to the news media reports more than 60 people have died and 200 have been injured, including women
and children in the past 24 hours of bombing by Pakistani military. The total numbers of casualties yet to be
confirmed, as all roads leading to Kholu and Dera Bugti (Balochistan) are blocked by the army and no media men are
allowed to enter. There were reports of exchange of fire at different locations between Baloch freedom fighters and
Pakistani military. According to official sources, military jets and gunship helicopters are being used in the operation.
A large number of troops equipped with heavy weapons including tanks have reached in Sui (Balochistan), bringing to
the number of troops to 37, 000 stationed in the area. The Military troops (FC) have dug up trenches and laid complete
siege of Dera Bugti. The situation is very tense and an all out war in eminent.

Your Excellency,

Pakistan’s crimes against Baloch people are not new. Pakistan’s forceful occupation and illegal annexing of
Balochistan and exploitation of Baloch resource are the root causes of Baloch insurgencies. Baloch people have
fought and are still fighting against the illegal occupation of their land and exploitation of their resources (gas, oil and
gold), which Pakistan has been looting for the past 58 years, leaving for Baloch people nothing but backwardness,
torture, execution, military operation and genocide. Here are some of the examples of Pakistan’s crime and human
right violations against Baloch people.

•        April 15th, 1948, Pakistan invaded the sovereign state of Balochistan, dissolved its elected Baloch parliament
(Dar-ul Awaam), killed thousand Baloch people and arrested the Baloch Ruler of the time ‘khan of Kalat’ and forced
him to sign the fake document of merger with Pakistan.

•        May 16th, 1948, Prince Karim, the younger brother of Khan of Kalat resisted the occupation and illegal annexing
of Balochistan and started the first Baloch National Resistance movement. He was later arrested with his 142
followers and was sent to prison along with his followers.

•        1968, Nawab Nowroz Khan, led the 2nd Baloch National resistance. He was arrested when he came to
negotiation with Pakistani generals, who assured him on the holy Quran that he will not be harmed and that the
Baloch grievances will be addressed, but when he came down, he and his followers were arrested and later
executed (hanged) in Hyderabad jail along with his sons and nephews.

•        1970-1975, Pakistani prime minister Zulfuqar Ali Bhutto dissolved the elected Baloch Nationalist Government of
Ghous Bux Bizenjo, Sardar Attaullah Mengal, Khair Bux Marri and Nawab Akbar khan Bugti in Balochistan and
launched the longest brutal massive military operation in Balochistan, which lasted for 5 years, in which Iranian gun
ships helicopters and Pakistan Air Force (PAF) jets were used to bomb the Baloch towns and villages that resulted
deaths of thousand Baloch people including women and children with destruction of thousands of homes and
villages. The water wells were polluted with chemicals to poisoned Baloch people and the captive Baloch women
and children were sold in Lahore Punjab like goats and sheep.

•        1975-2005, Pakistan continues its anti-Baloch genocidal plans. On March 17th, 2005, more than 70 innocent
Baloch mostly women and children were killed and 200 hundred were injured by gunship helicopters and military jet
in Dera Bugti and the Baloch veteran leader Nawab Akbar khan Bugti ‘s house was targeted in a attempt to
assassinate him. More than 6000 Baloch people have been arrested since then and many of them are missing and
are being tortured.

•        Pakistan is determined to build three more military cantonments in Balochistan to suppress the Baloch voice
and to continue exploitation of Baloch resources. More than 600 military check post established in allover
Balochistan to control the lives, activities and movements of Baloch people in their own homeland and there are 60
thousand troops stationed in Balochistan and more troops are on the way. Balochistan have been turned into a
military occupied war zone. Baloch people are living in fear and in hopelessness and they are desperately looking at
the world community and the freedom loving people for their help and rescue against the tyranny of Pakistani
dictators. They are saying, "Enough is enough".

•        The Gwadar port being built with the help of China, despite the strong Baloch opposition, to bring millions of non-
Baloch Punjabi to change Baloch demography and to turn Baloch people into minority in their own homeland, a typical
mindset of a colonial attitude. The Baloch people’s resistance against Pakistani anti-Baloch plans is natural. They
are demanding that Baloch resources should be used for Baloch people and that the military cantonments should be
stopped and Pakistani Punjabi military should be withdrawn from Balochistan and be replaced by Baloch people.

Your Excellency,

Your urgent attention and immediate intervention can save thousands Baloch lives in Balochistan and will be highly
appreciated by the people of Balochistan and the Baloch Diaspora of allover the world. Please use your influence to
ask the Pakistani dictators to stop the military operation and genocide of Baloch Nation and end their anti-Baloch
policies. We highly appreciate your kind attention and intervention in this urgent matter.

Thank you Your Excellency.

Dr. Wahid Baloch, President of
Baloch Society of North America (BSO-NA), USA.

Related links:
•        https://bso-na.org/Letters_to_UN_Secretary_General.htm/
•        https://bso-na.org/pakistani_military_launched_military_operation_in_balochistan.html
•        https://bso-na.org/stop_military_operation_in_balochistan.html

Baloch Society Of North America (BSO_NA)

BSO-NA is a non-profit Organization, working to unite and organize all Baloch in North America, to expose the
Pakistani and Irani Occupation of our Baloch land (Balochistan), and to bring their human rights violations in
Balochistan to the world's Notice.

https://BSO-NA.org