- Once I asked Baloch leader and former
Balochistan Governor the late Mir Ghous Bux Bizenjo what
were the reasons that Pakistani army killed Bhutto. The
wise man replied that:
- “Bhutto signed his death warrant the
day he dismissed the secular and progressive N.A.P.
(National Awami Party) government in the early 70s and
started the military operation in Balochistan,
massacring thousands of Baloch. He made a death wish the
day he declared Ahmadis non Muslims and went and sat on
lap of the Islamists.”
- As if history is rpeating itself,
today under the PPP government, jihadist organizations
are being pampered, Ahmedi mosques are being torched,
shias are being killed, Christian villages are being
burnt to ashes and the army is engaged in a blood bath
in Balochistan.. They say that those who do not learn
from history are condemned to repeat it. This time it
would be the whole PPP as a party signing off its
political death warrant, along with the leadership to
the Pakistan army generals.
- The recent history of Pakistan shows
that myopia is a collective folly for the establishment
of the God forsaken country. Interior Minister, Rehman
Malik showed his utter insensitivity to the Baloch
people Wednesday when he announced intensification of
the ongoing military operation by expanding the role of
Frontier Corps and intelligence agencies, transferring
all administrative powers to the Frontier Corps (F.C.)
in Balochistan and to ban Baloch Student Organization
Azad and resistance organizations. This bully mindset is
a legacy of the Pakistani establishment which the PPP
government is continuing with, despite all its tall
promises and sugar-coatied packages. Malik's latest
threat confirms that the PPP government is no different
than the previous dictatorship of "Pakistani Pinochet"
General Musharraf. The chief minister of Balochistan,
Nawab Aslam Raisani, has repeatedly complained that his
government is being surpassed by the military
establishment and has accused the Pakistani army of
running a parallel government in Balochistan. He is
bitter the F.C.deems itself above the elected political
authorities.
- Some time back the police chief of
Quetta, Shabir Sheikh, announced in a news conference
that every targeted killing of a settler would be
matched with target killing of a Baloch. This
announcement of the police chief was not a bluff but
meant serious business. Leading Baloch intellectuals,
experienced political workers, trade unions,
journalists, doctors, teachers, poets, lawyers and
students are being forcefully disappeared and within
twenty days their dead bodies are dumped in the open,
with marks of brutal torture.
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- This week one more prominent lawyer
of the Balochistan High Court, Mr Zaman Khan Marri who
was forcefully abducted by the Military Intelligence on
19th August 2010 near his law office on Jinnah Road
Quetta, was found dead on a street in Mastung with
brutal marks of torture and a bullet hole in his head.
Marri's fault was his voluntary help for the Baloch
victims of enforced disappearances; two weeks ago two
bullet-riddled bodies, later on identified as Mohammad
Omer Baloch and Arz Mohammad Pirkani, both resident of
Quetta, were found in similar circumstances. According
to the families of these innocent victims, the two were
abducted 20 days ago by the Pakistani intelligence
agencies. This brought the total to 15 extra judicial
killings of victims of enforced disappearances in a
short span of two weeks. At the time even when the
Punjab-based jihadist outfits such as the notorious
Jamat Dawa and infamous Lashker-i-Taiba are on a killing
spree against the minority Shias, Ahmedis and
Christians, Pakistani Army has given them a free hand to
operate and remain at the forefront of the flood relief
efforts.
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- These organizations are not only
fortifying their organizational base but also recruiting
new members.
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- Unfortunately, all this is being made
possible with the monies coming from the West in name of
foreign aid. The jihadi organizations, who are indirect
beneficiaries of the Western dole outs, carried out
deadly attacks against the Shia minority in Quetta last
week that left almost one hundred dead. Instead of
resolving to operate against these extremists, Malik
tried to divert the world attention away from the havoc
caused by these jihadists and announced plans to have a
fresh bloodbath in Balochistan against the secular
Baloch forces.
- Pakistan is
guilty under Article II, part C of the United Nations
Genocide Convention, in that it intends to destroy, in
whole or in part, an ethnic group by 'deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part.' Physical destruction means not only physical
annihilation, but the destruction of their political
leadership and civic institutions and the attempt to
prevent them to reproduce themselves through the
generations as a sovereign people.
- The massacre in Balochistan cries out
for immediate condemnation.
- It is quite clear to us that
Pakistan, like white Australia since 1788, is a
genocidal settler colonial society that since its
inception has sought to destroy the foundations of life
of the indigenous Baloch, closing the door to health,
human dignity, decent livelihood and personal safety on
them, blocking access to education, and undermining
their political organizations, so that the Baloch can be
replaced in their homeland of Balochistan by colonizing
jihadi Pakistani settlers who are faithful to Pakistan's
fundamentalist Islamic ideology.
- But the Baloch want to remind the
Pakistani military establishment that Baloch mothers
would keep giving birth with pride to more Balach, Jalib,
Ghulam Mohammad and Zaman Marri, who would not only
defeat all evil designs of Pakistani establishment but
put an end to illegal occupation of Balochistan.
- Pakistan’s occupation of Balochistan
is not only a return to the age of classical
colonialism, it is much worse than that. It is something
very low, more vulgar, more brutish, more humiliating
and therefore much more bestial and dangerous --
dangerous to Baloch, and of course to humanity at large.
(Balochistan is a Texas size state occupied by Pakistan
on March 27 1948. This is the fifth Baloch uprising
against Pakistani brutal military regime)
- (Balochistan is a Texas size state
occupied by Pakistan in the year 1948. This is the fifth
Baloch uprising against Pakistani brutal military
regime)
- By Imtiaz Baloch
- Spoke Person Baloch Human Rights
Council(Canada)
- Member International Voice for
Missing Baloch (IVBMP)
