Press Release
A protest rally
against Pakistani state operation in Lyari was held in front of 10 Downing Street
on Sunday May 6 2012. Protest was organised by Baloch Human Rights Council (UK)
and World Sindhi Congress. A large number of the Baloch and Sindhis from all
over UK attended the rally.
Speakers
expressed their solidarity with the people of Lyari and condemned in strongest
terms, the brutal and inhuman operation against the Baloch and Sindhi people in
Karachi and other parts of Sindh and Balochistan. They termed the operation in
Lyari as an extension of genocide acts by Pakistan which is continuing in Balochistan for the last many
years. The speakers from Sindhi and
Baloch Diaspora expressed their anger over shameless and murderous activities
of the police headed by a known target killer Choudary Aslam. Speakers called
upon the international community to take cognizance of the fact that 2 million
people in Lyari were kept hostage for almost 8 days. Children were denied milk,
residents were denied food, and medicines. Electricity and water supply of the
area was cut off. Dozens of innocent people including women and children were
killed mercilessly by the death squads of security agencies. Speakers stressed
upon the UK government to take notice of the dirty role of MQM during the
operation.
Waja Akber
Barakzai, Mir Noordin Mengal, Dr. Lakhu Luhana, Abdulla Baloch,
Suhaib Mengal, Hidayat Bhutto, Umer Raeesi, Mansoor Baluch, Rubina Greenwood, Alla Bakhsh Gabol, Samad Baloch and honourable Mir of UK, Mir Ghulam Hussain were among those who spoke on the
occasion.
After the
demonstration, on behalf of Baloch Human Rights Council (UK) and World Sindhi
Congress, a petition was presented to the UK Prime Minister Mr. David Cameron.
The petition was handed over by Waja Akber Barakzai, Mir Noordin Mengal and Dr
Lakhu Luhana. In the petition, it was stressed that the British government
should pressurize the Pakistani authorities to immediately stop the genocide
acts against the Baloch and Sindhis.
Issued by:
Samad Baloch
General
Secretary
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Letter to the British Prime Minister
Right
Honourable David Cameron
Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom
10
Downing Street
London
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Dear Mr.PrimeMinister
Subject:
Ethnic cleansing of the Baloch and Sindhis in Karachi, Pakistan
The Baloch Human
Rights Council UK (BHRC) and World Sindhi Congress (WSC) is writing this letter to bring to your kind attention the mass killing of Baloch and Sindhi
population of Karachi, which is forcing the indigenous population of the city
to flee. This is in order to make way for a demographic shift and the total
domination of Indian origin immigrant over the capital city of Sindh.
Pakistani
establishment and security forces are systematically massacring the Baloch and
Sindhi people for the last many years and the Baloch areas in Karachi have been
the killing fields for the Baloch and Sindhis. We have recently learned that
hundreds of the Baloch youths, elders, women and children are brutally murdered
by Pakistani security forces in Karachi under the façade of an operation
against miscreants.
Within last few
weeks, there has been a relentless crackdown against the beleaguered Baloch and
Sindhi people living in Karachi by the federal and provincial security
agencies, in collaboration with powerful mafia in the guise of a political party
“the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)”. This party is the political front of
Indian immigrants and controlled by a gang of extortionist and murderers and
the chief of this party is unfortunately a British citizen living in
London.
As a result of
this crackdown on the indigenous Baloch and Sindhi population, hundreds of
innocent people have been killed, and thousands have been displaced from their
homes. To date none of the personnel from security forces involved in this
brutal violation of fundamental human rights of the Baloch and Sindhis in
Karachi has been charged nor have any of the culprits been brought to justice.
In fact, more brutal operations are being sanctioned by the Provincial and
Central Governments of Pakistan with the backing of MQM.
Mr. Prime Minister
While the World
spoke out forcefully about the repression in the Mildest East and North Africa,
Pakistani State moves against innocent Baloch People pressing for their
democratic and human rights change is largely unnoticed and unchallenged. In the
light of what has been stated above, this is a tip of an iceberg in terms of
massive human rights violations which resulted in massacre and forced flee of
Baloch and Sindhi People.
Given the special
UK ties with Pakistan, BHRC and WSC urges you to give greater priority and
prominence to human rights violations issues within this relationship. The
public criticisms and harsh sanctions by the UK government of the massacre of
innocent Baloch People and harsh suppression of democratic and human rights of
Baloch People by Pakistani State would force the Pakistani State to immediately
stop their systematic human rights abuses.
BHRC and WSC appeals to you to take urgent action in order to save the
life of thousands of innocent Baloch and Sindhis in Karachi.
We request that
your government set an example by using its enormous influence to put
political, economic and diplomatic pressure upon the Pakistan government so
that it would immediately stop mass killing, execution, torture, disappearance
and ill-treatment of the Baloch and Sindhis all across Pakistan. We kindly
request you, using the visit of the Pakistani Prime Minister, to help bring to
an end such human sufferings of Baloch and Sindhi People.
Thanking you in
anticipation,
Yours Sincerely,
Baloch Human
Rights Council (UK)
World Sindhi
Congress
Date 6 May 2012
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