Baloch Human Rights Council held a short notice protest rally in front of 10 Downing Street London, against the extra judicial killing and abductions of Balochs by Pakistani state and requested the UK govt. to intervene in Balochistan against the genocide of Baloch nation by Pakistan. A petition was delivered to the British Prime Minister. Copy is below,
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His
Excellency Mr. David Cameron
Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom
10
Downing Street
London
SW1A
2AA
30 September 2012
Subject: Appeal to the UK
Government for Intervention in Balochistan to Stop Genocide of Baloch Nation
Dear
Mr. Prime Minister,
We would like to draw your kind attention towards the
gruesome violations of human rights by the Pakistani security agencies in
Balochistan continuing for last 10 years. Before highlighting the recent
violations of human rights by the Pakistani state security agencies, it is
imperative to briefly the mention the Baloch Pakistan Conflict in a historical
perspective.
In the wake of the British withdrawal from India , the ruler of the Baloch state of Kalat
declared Balochistan independent on 12th August 1947, two days
before the independence of Pakistan and India
The primary aspect of the conflict between the Baloch and Pakistan has been the dispute over the
legitimacy of accession of the Baloch State of Kalat with Pakistan Pakistan
The second aspect of Baloch-Pakistan conflict is the
irrational and politically perverse doctrine of ‘Islamic brother-hood’. The concepts of Islamic brother-hood, and
Pakistani Islamic Nation doctrine adopted by the state were used as tools for
subjugating the Baloch and other nationalities and for undermining their
cultural, linguistic and social traditions. Organized attempts are being made
by state establishment to bring religion into a prominent position in a secular
Baloch society. In this regard, large numbers of religious schools are being
patronized by the state in every corner of Balochistan to convert the 'ignorant
Baloch' and save them from ‘eternal damnation’.
Cultural exploitation of the Baloch is another characteristic
of the Baloch and the state conflict. Alien cultural traditions and language
are being imposed at the expense of traditional Baloch social values, the
Baloch socio-cultural and political systems are being destroyed or corrupted in
a systematic and organized way.
Crude military power has been the only way adopted by almost
every Pakistani Government in dealing with the Baloch discontent. The Pakistani
army, perceiving the Baloch nationalism as a grave threat to the state,
launched major military offensives in Balochistan during 1948, 1958, 1962, and
1973. The ongoing military campaign is the bloodiest one causing internal
dislocation of thousands of the Baloch.
Violation of basic human rights of the Baloch is the most
painful aspect of the Baloch-Pakistan conflict. Extra judicial killings,
harassment, kidnapping and inhuman torture of the Baloch leaders; political
activists and intellectuals are the normal state responses to the Baloch
political mobilization and expression of Baloch national aspirations.
A ruthless war has
been going on in the Pakistani controlled Balochistan for the last ten years in
which thousands of innocent men, women and children have been mercilessly
killed, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and thousands are missing.
Whereabouts of thousands of the Baloch civilians are still unknown and we genuinely
believe that their lives are in grave danger. Abductions of students, doctors,
teachers, journalists and human rights activists is going on daily basis in
Balochistan. The Chief Minister of
Balochistan, the Governor of Balochistan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan and
the President of Pakistan have admitted the worsening human rights situation in
Balochistan and have shown their helplessness against Pakistani army and its
notorious Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI)
agencies. In addition of this, the Pakistani military establishment has created
numerous religious terrorist organizations as proxy “Hit Squads” and with the
help of these organizations consisting of drug peddlers, dacoits and social
outcasts. These are working with different nomenclatures and are given the task
of physically eliminating the Baloch intellectuals, political and human rights activists.
The graphic details of human rights violation in Balochistan
have been published by different non-governmental organizations and
international humanitarian’s institutions. Some of the reports are mentioned in
attached dossiers.
The human rights violations of the Baloch by the Pakistani
State Establishment are characterized by humiliation of the Baloch leadership;
displacement of thousands of the Baloch; extra-judicial killings and
kidnappings of the Baloch activists.Hundreds of the Baloch settlement and
nomadic villages had been bombarded and burnt forcing thousands of inhabitants
to flee their areas and becoming internally displaced. Two hundred thousand
Baloch have been forcefully dislocated by the armed forces and are living in
miserable conditions.
Security agencies created Para-military organizations with
different nomenclature are targeting Baloch nationalist activists, social
leaders, businessmen, students and teachers to frustrate the voice of the
Baloch and undermine the support for national resistance. A large number of
prominent Baloch social, intellectual and political figures have been targeted
and eliminated by these hit squads.
Ø The brutal
murder of one of the towering figures of the Baloch national movement, Nawab
Akber Bugti in 2006 and the death of the revered resistance fighter Nawabzada
Mir Balaach Marri in 2007 are the most important happenings of the present
conflict.
Ø Leaders of
Baloch National Movement and Baloch Republican Party Ghulam Mohammed Baloch
Lala Munir Baloch Sher Mohammed Baloch were killed in Turbat after arresting
them from their lawyer’s office in April, 2009. In the same way Pakistani
secret agencies abducted, the joint secretary of Baloch Nation Movement Rasool
Bux Mengal, on 23 August 2009.
Ø Habib Jalib, the
General Secretary of the Balochistan National Party and another prominent
leader of the party Haji Liaguat Ali Mengal were assassinated by the death
squads of the Pakistani army in July 2010.
Ø Vice President
of Balochistan National party, Mr. Noordin Mengal was killed by the security
agencies in Kalat in August 2010.
Ø Lala Hameed a
journalist from Gwadur was killed by security agencies along with one of his
friend Hasil Baloch in October, 2010.
Ø The house of
Balochistan National Party leader Ayub Gichki, one of the uncles of the Party
president Sardar Akhtar Mengal was bombarded by the army and his two sons and
three of other family friends were killed on 1st Decembr 2010.
Ø Mr Zaman Khan
Marri and renowned Baloch Lawyer, columnist and poet, Mr Ali Sher Kurd were
abducted during August and September. Their bodies were later found.
Ø Dr. Khalid a human right activist and his were murdered by the security forces in
2007.
Hundreds of political and social workers and civil rights
activists are under detention without trials. Thousands of the Baloch political
and social activists have been picked up by the security agencies since 2001 and
their whereabouts are not known. It is a routine practice by the security
forces to abduct political workers, human right activists and student leaders.
They are usually held for many months tortured and later dumped in a remote
area. Over the past 10years, more than two
thousand Baloch activists have been killed by the security forces in
Balochistan. Among the disappeared there are one hundred and forty three Baloch
women and 168 children are missing and believed to be abducted by the security
forces.
There has been a steady rise in the number of abductions of
the Baloch by Pakistani secret agencies for the last many months. The miseries
of the abducted persons known popularly as missing have been highlighted by
various international humanitarian organizations. The Asian Human Rights
Commission, in their recent reports has confirmed this number. Baloch sources’ estimate of the number of extra
judicial abductions and missing Baloch people by Pakistani secret agencies is
about 14,000 persons.
The role of Pakistani army in the killings and abduction of
40 Baloch activists has been highlighted by the Amnesty International in its
report on 25 October 2010 on Balochistan.
From the of publication of this report the Pakistani state and its
security agencies have accelerated their
policy of enforced disappearances, abduction, arbitrary arrests,
torture, killing and dumping operations in Balochistan with an alarming pace.
The recovered bodies
of all victims, without exception, bear signs of extreme torture and they all
have been killed and dumped in open air in the same way in different parts of
Balochistan. They all bear the hallmark of professional torturers. The policy
of killing and dumping is premeditated, organized and systematic.
In the face of heinous crimes being committed by the
Pakistani security forces in Balochistan and the unchecked violations of the
basic human rights of the Baloch, the silence of the international community is
incomprehensible. The international community is watching silently, while a
whole nation is systematically being wiped out by the Pakistani state through
cultural, economic, political and military aggression. This is high time for
the international community to rise and act before it is too late for the
Baloch.
The current human rights situation in Balochistan is one of
the worst in the world and gross violations against Baloch people are
commonplace. The internationally reputed human rights organisations and
legislators have extensively reported and condemned the widespread killings and
enforced disappearances of Baloch people by Pakistan’s security apparatus. In
2011 alone more than 400 tortured and mutilated bodies of Baloch political
leaders, political and human rights
workers, social workers, student activists, intellectuals, journalists and
academics were found. The Human Rights Watch has reported these atrocities in
their famous report “We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years” . The statements of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and other
legislators in the recent “US House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations,
Baluchistan” presents an alarming
picture of gross human rights violations particularly the extrajudicial
killings and enforced disappearances. Recognising the gravity of the human
rights violations, particularly the widespread disappearances UN sent a fact
finding mission to Pakistan. The report of the fact finding mission is still
awaited. Although, the access of the fact finding mission was severely
curtailed, however, the final press
statement of the committee has confirmed the scale, cruelty of the systematic
violence of human rights by security agencies.
Excellency,
The Baloch are living a life at the gunpoint in the shadows
of inhuman atrocities by the most atrocious state establishment in the
contemporary world. Their very survival as a nation is threatened by the
distortion of their history, occupation of their land and systematic efforts
and designs aimed at submerging them in an artificial Pakistani-Islamic culture.
To strangulate the Baloch national aspiration once and for all, the Pakistani
army is waging a war with no regards for humanitarian laws. The war against the Baloch is being waged
without witnesses. They are refusing access to foreign observers, journalists
and humanitarian organizations.
The situation for the Baloch is alarming. We believe that we
are justified in asking for the immediate intervention of United Kingdom in
order to pressurize the Pakistani state for an immediate end to genocide acts
being committed on the Baloch.
We strongly request you
to press the Pakistani army establishment to stop all atrocities against the
Baloch political, social and human rights activists and civilians.
We will be grateful if the Government of United Kingdom could
press for the establishment of an international commission to investigate the
heinous crimes against humanity committed by the Pakistani State establishments
in Balochistan.
We also request your excellency to take necessary steps to
stop all the aid to Pakistan until this rogue state agrees to oblige by the
international laws of human rights.
Yours Faithfully
Samad Baloch
Secretary General
Baloch Human Rights Council (UK}
Noordin Mengal
Baloch human Rights activists in the UN
Qambar Malik
President
Baloch students & youth
Association
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