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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Intervention By Mehran Baluch,
Agence Des Cites Pour La Cooperation Nord-Sud
Mr. Chairman, at the very outset I like to draw your attention to the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights.
Article one of the covenant clearly states all peoples have the right to decide their own political
future. It says, “By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue
their economic, social and cultural development.†Article One further says that States Parties shall
promote the realization of the right of a people to decide their own future, and shall respect that
right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.
I come from a God-forsaken part of the world where neither the CNN nor the Al-Jazeerah TV
networks have a full bureau. I am from Balochistan, which means the land of the Baloch, in
southwest Asia. To be honest, Balochistan needs Wikileaks.
Article 1 of I.C.C.P.R. states “In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of
subsistence.†The irony is when natural floods wreaked havoc on Pakistan in recent weeks,
Balochistan was ravaged by military-made floods. There is a humanitarian crisis in Balochistan
because of this deliberate flooding that was meant to save F-16 fighter jets at an airbase.
In addition, the Military, the Military Intelligence, Inter Services Intelligence, the paramilitary
Frontier Corps have thrown the Geneva conventions to the wind. In the last one month alone they
threw the badly tortured bodies of 20 victims of enforced and involuntary disappearances out in
the open killing fields of Balochistan.
The latest victims include Baloch lawyers. Noted lawyer Zaman Marri's tortured body,with three
bullet holes to his head was recovered on September 5.
Earlier, Munir Ahmed Mirwani, who is the secretary general of the Jhalawan Bar Association, was
kidnapped at gunpoint in Khuzdar on June 17, 2010.
He is among the more than 1,100 documented victims of enforced disappearances in Balochistan
who are still missing. Habib Jalib, a senior lawyer, was gunned down by the Muslah Diffah Tanzim
on July 14. In all these cases, the common denominator is the same force who created and are
still nurturing the Taliban in Afghanistan.
I take this opportunity to thank the U.N Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary
Disappearances, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Special
Rapporteur on Torture, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Special
Rapporteur on Racism and appeal to this august body a fact-finding mission to Balochistan is in
