Gotenbourg Sweden Sunday, June 26, 2011
he 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.
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
*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
The Asian Human Rights Commission* *has already reported that 52 torture
cells are run by the Pakistan army
http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2008statements/1574/
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