Gotenbourg
Sweden Sunday, June 26, 2011
26
The International
Day against Torture
* **United Nations has designated 26th
June as the International Day against
Torture. This day is designated to
emphasize the importance of the right to
personal dignity and security for all
individuals around the world. It is
the day to remember that each person’s
rights are protected and guaranteed
within the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. **On 26 June 1987 the
Convention against Torture came into
force. It was an important step in the
much-needed process of globalizing human
rights and acknowledging that
torture, and all forms of inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment, are
absolutely and universally illegal. In
1997, the United Nations General
Assembly decided to mark this historic
date and designated 26 June each year
as International Day in Support of
Victims of Torture.
Women fall victim to
torture in different ways, as
highlighted by UN Secretary-General Ban
Ki-moon's global campaign to end
violence against women, launched in
February 2008, and by other recent
initiatives concerning violence against
women, such as United Nations Action
against Sexual Violence in Conflict.
Certain forms of gender-specific
violence perpetrated by State actors, as
well as by private individuals or
organizations, clearly amount to
torture,
and it is now recognized that
gender-specific violence falls within
the
definition of torture in the Convention
against Torture.**Highlighting the
significance of this day the former UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan said:
"This is a day on which we pay our
respects to those who have endured the
unimaginable. This is an occasion for
the world to speak up against the
unspeakable. It is long overdue that a
day be dedicated to remembering and
.supporting the
many victims and survivors of torture
around the world
Like other occupied Nations around the
world the Baluch people have also
been facing torture, death, destruction,
extra judicial killings and arrests
and enforced disappearances since the
illegal occupation of their motherland
by the states of Iran and Pakistan. Both
Islamic states have committed
unprecedented atrocities in Baluchistan.
Many hundreds of Baluch political
activists have been tortured and killed
under torture in detention. Those
who have survived the ordeal are left
with permanent emotional and physical
.disabilities
*Saba Dashtyari Baloch** :**Pakistan
Military death squad has target killed
Renowned Baloch scholar, writer and poet
Professor Saba Dashtyari at Sariab
Road, Quetta Balochistan.Prof. Dashtyari
was a professor of Islamic Studies
at Balochistan University. He
contributed more than 24 books on
Balochi
literature, history, poetry and
translation.
Prof. Dashtyari also established
Syed Zahoor Shah Hashmi reference
library in Malir area of Karachi having
more than 150 thousands books in various
languages particularly on Balochi
literature, culture and civilization. It
is also the Baluchistan's largest
library on Balochi literature.
He also compiled index and
bibliography of all
.the published
Balochi literature in the past 50 years
**At present around 13,000 Baluch
political and student activists have
been
forcefully disappeared by Pakistani
state intelligence agencies.More than
300 bruttle bullet riddlet body found on
different area in Balochistan .They
student ,teacher,innocent
people,Docters.Hundreds are behind bars
for crimes
they did not commit. The situation of
the Baluch people is not any better
under Iranian occupied Baluchistan. No
single day goes by without arrest,
imprisonment, torture and execution of a
Baloch person. **He strongly
condemned the Human Rights Organisation
for their silence on the gross
torture and mistreatment of thousands of
Baloch political and student
activists at the hands of Pakistani
intelligence agencies. He appealed all
free born and human loving people to
raise voice against the Human Rights
violations in Balochistan. **To
expose the atrocities of Iran and
Pakistan
against to express your opposition
against any type of torture and to show
your solidarity with the victims of
torture.** At present there are several
Baloch activists in the custody of
Iranian Intelligence services and after
the harrowing death of the two Baloch,
their families’ fear that the rest of
the activists might also been killed in
the same manner. sensory
deprivation, painful shackling, severe
beatings, electric shocks, induced
hypothermia, exposure to bright lights
and eardrum-shattering sounds 24
.hours a day,
denial of medical care, proper food or
enough of it
excruciating force-feeding to
hunger-strikers, induced psychological
trauma
forced sodomy, threats and bites by
snakes, being blindfolded and hung from
the ceiling by their wrists, and
subjected to repeated humiliations,
indignities and barbarism for months,
even year. This is the tale of
Pakistanes long tradition of inflicting
abusive barbaric treatment of Baloch
.which claimed
yet another life among the thousand it
had taken previously
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