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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 |
Harper asked to intervene to help Baluch people
NATO action against Pakistan backed
June 11, 2008
VANCOUVER: Baluch families in Canada held a historic protest in front of the Art Gallery in Vancouver on Wednesday and urged Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper to intervene and save the Baloch nation from genocide and total annihilation at the hands of Pakistani and Iranian Occupation
Forces.
This was the second protest rally in Canada in as many weeks, exposing the brutalities being perpetrated on the Baloch people in Pakistan and Iran.
The protesters also carried posters that read “Pakistan: Hands Off Afghanistan” in a show of support to Canadian and N.A.T.O. troops that two days
earlier exercised their right of “hot pursuit” and targeted Pakistani militia called Frontier Corps that were providing tactical support to military incursions
of the Taliba’an forces.
Aziz Baloch, an activist of the Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada, narrated the history of the woes of the Baloch people in Iran and Pakistan to a
gathering that included a large number of Canadians.
The full text of Aziz Baloch’s speech is as follows:
“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 both 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 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 their motherland.
Today a young Baloch, Gholam Haider Raisani is in a Quetta Jail (capital city of Pakistani Balochistan) and the present government 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. A Baloch leader, a former governor and
premier of Balochistan and powerful tribal chief of Bugti tribe, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti demanded of the military that the officer should be brought to
justice. But General Pervez Musharrraf (who is still the president of Pakistan) personally acquitted the rapist army officer without any trial.
This is just one example that shows how the army generals, who forcibly occupied Balochistan in March 1948, are 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 U.S.
military aid meant to be used in the "war on terror" against the Baloch people. Nawab Bugti and later Mir Balach Marri (former provincial assembly
member from Balochistan) were assassinated by the Pakistani army.
From March 2005 to date more than 7000 political, social, and human rights activist have disappeared, been kidnapped, tortured and are being killed.
As recently as this month Pakistani intelligences arrested 70 Bugti tribesmen in Chaman area of Balochistan while 200 other Bugti tribesmen have
disappeared since the 18 February 2008 general elections in Pakistan.
As I speak 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. A young Baloch senator Sanaullah
Baloch last week resigned from his post as member of senate due to the Pakistani government's continued oppression of the Baloch 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: >>Vancouver,Canada Rally Report: By Aziz Baloch
NATO action against Pakistan backed
June 11, 2008
VANCOUVER: Baluch families in Canada held a historic protest in front of the Art Gallery in Vancouver on Wednesday and urged Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper to intervene and save the Baloch nation from genocide and total annihilation at the hands of Pakistani and Iranian Occupation
Forces.
This was the second protest rally in Canada in as many weeks, exposing the brutalities being perpetrated on the Baloch people in Pakistan and Iran.
The protesters also carried posters that read “Pakistan: Hands Off Afghanistan” in a show of support to Canadian and N.A.T.O. troops that two days
earlier exercised their right of “hot pursuit” and targeted Pakistani militia called Frontier Corps that were providing tactical support to military incursions
of the Taliba’an forces.
Aziz Baloch, an activist of the Baloch Human Rights Council of Canada, narrated the history of the woes of the Baloch people in Iran and Pakistan to a
gathering that included a large number of Canadians.
The full text of Aziz Baloch’s speech is as follows:
“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 both 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 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 their motherland.
Today a young Baloch, Gholam Haider Raisani is in a Quetta Jail (capital city of Pakistani Balochistan) and the present government 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. A Baloch leader, a former governor and
premier of Balochistan and powerful tribal chief of Bugti tribe, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti demanded of the military that the officer should be brought to
justice. But General Pervez Musharrraf (who is still the president of Pakistan) personally acquitted the rapist army officer without any trial.
This is just one example that shows how the army generals, who forcibly occupied Balochistan in March 1948, are 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 U.S.
military aid meant to be used in the "war on terror" against the Baloch people. Nawab Bugti and later Mir Balach Marri (former provincial assembly
member from Balochistan) were assassinated by the Pakistani army.
From March 2005 to date more than 7000 political, social, and human rights activist have disappeared, been kidnapped, tortured and are being killed.
As recently as this month Pakistani intelligences arrested 70 Bugti tribesmen in Chaman area of Balochistan while 200 other Bugti tribesmen have
disappeared since the 18 February 2008 general elections in Pakistan.
As I speak 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. A young Baloch senator Sanaullah
Baloch last week resigned from his post as member of senate due to the Pakistani government's continued oppression of the Baloch 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: >>Vancouver,Canada Rally Report: By Aziz Baloch