حزب مردم بلوچستان Balochistan People’s Party بلوچستانءِ اُستمانءِ گــَل
BHRC strongly
condemns the Killing of unarmed Baloch civilians in Turbat By Pakistani
security forces
Baloch Human Rights Council
London (UK) ; Dated: 27 August 2008
Press Release
The newly formed Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) in London held an
emergency meeting and discussed Pakistani paramilitary (Frontier
Constabulary) firing on innocent unarmed civilians gathered in Turbat on 25
August 2008 to commemorate the 2nd martyrdom anniversary of Great Baloch
Leader Nawab Akbar Bugti. According to the media reports 1 innocent person
has been killed on the spot and 10 people have been injured by Pakistani
paramilitary force's indiscriminate firing. The person shot dead is named as
Altaf Buledahi and among the injured was a journalist named Irshad Akhtar
who has undergone serious surgery in hospital and his condition is said to
be critical.
Baloch Human Rights Council condemns in strongest terms the heinous crimes
of Pakistani para military forces committed on innocent, unarmed civilians
in Turbat, attempting to commemorate and pay tributes to their Great Baloch
national politician Nawab Bugti who was target killed by Pakistani army 2
yrs ago in Tratani Kohalu district area of Balochistan. The same Pakistani
military did not even handed over the dead body of Nawab to his family for
burial. His burial took place under the noose of Pakistani military guns and
paramilitary forces which was inhuman, unislamic immoral and criminal.
Turbat firing on unarmed civilians is another repeated act of Pakistan's
military establishment to fulfill their dream of Baloch genocide. BHRC
regards this Pakistani paramilitary action on civilians as barbaric and
inhuman.
BHRC extends its deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of shaheed
Altaf Buledahi and pray for rapid recovery of the injured and demand from
the government for the arrest of the Pakistani soldiers responsible for
indiscriminate firing on the crowd.
BHRC requests the Chief Minister, Governor, Home Minister and members of
provincial assembly of Balochistan to intervene and play their human, moral
and above all Balochi role in stopping Baloch massacre by Pakistani army.
BHRC also requests in particular Asif Zardari who is a Baloch and PPP in
general who is currently ruling Pakistan, Nawaz sharif being the Shere-e
-Punjab and Asfand Yaar Wali, partner in the coalition government to record
their protest against Pakistan army operation in Balochistan and play their
political and moral and human role to stop ongoing army operation against
Baloch civilians in Balochistan.
Balochs are human beings a peaceful nation who want to live in peace in
their own homeland with dignity, integrity and prosperity with their
neighborhood and world at large and has the natural god given right to
protect and defend their land and resources, socioeconomic and political
rights and above all to commemorate their heroes.
BHRC is justified in calling United Nation (UN), NATO forces, European Union
and international community and other human rights organizations to take
notice of the Pakistani army's ferocious atrocities against Baloch civilians
and to intervene to stop killing Baloch civilians and their massacre by
Pakistani army.
A. Samad Baloch
Gen. Secretary
Baloch Human Rights Council
London (UK) Dated: 27 August 2008
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Most FC posts in
Balochistan to be abolished: Baloch leaders to be released, cases to be
withdrawn
By Saleem Shahid; dawn.com
QUETTA, Aug 28: Prime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik
has announced that names of all political leaders of Balochistan have been
removed from the Exit Control List (ECL) and 35 checkpoints of the Frontier
Corps in the province are being abolished.
Addressing a press conference, along with Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani
and provincial ministers at the end of a two-day visit to Quetta, he said
the steps were being taken as part of the government’s reconciliation
process.
“The name of Nawab Khair Bakhsh Marri’s son Nawabzada Gazin Marri has been
removed from the ECL and a new passport has been issued to him,” the adviser
said. Mr Malik said he had met Gazin Marri in Dubai on the directives of
Pakistan People’s Party’s co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and he was likely to
return to the country soon.
He said 35 of the 54 checkpoints of the Frontier Crops would be removed from
different parts of the province because of people’s complaints.
“The FC will establish these checkpoints along the border,” he said.
Responding to a question, he said all detained political workers of
Balochistan would be released and cases registered against them would be
dropped. He said a committee had been formed to review the cases against
political leaders and workers. However, criminal cases would not be
withdrawn, he said.
He said all law-enforcement agencies in the province would work under the
chief minister. He also said that the government was trying to resolve the
issue of Balochistan and remove the “misunderstandings of our Baloch
brothers”.
“I met PkMAP chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai, JWP leader Nawabzada Talal Akbar
Bugti and other leaders in Quetta and discussed the Balochistan issue with
them,” he said. “We are trying to persuade our angry Baloch brothers to
throw away their weapons and join the mainstream to serve Balochistan and
Pakistan.”
He said the government was in touch with political parties in its efforts to
find a political solution to Balochistan’s problems. He said Mr Zardari was
implementing the reconciliation process initiated by the late Benazir
Bhutto.
The adviser appealed to all political forces to elect Mr Zardari unopposed
as the president. The adviser said army personnel would be withdrawn from
the interior of the province and replaced by civil forces.
Chief Minister Raisani said there should be a ceasefire by both the
government and the militants for the sake of peace. He said the government
was determined to go ahead with the process of political reconciliation.
Earlier, addressing Sulimankhail tribesmen in Sambaza and Gul Kach, Mr Malik
said extremists were distributing suicide jackets among youths rather than
educating them.
He said that the ‘war on terror’ was Pakistan’s own war.
Hinting at involvement of foreign hand in the increasing militancy in the
tribal belt, he urged tribesmen to support the government and stop the
activities of anti-state elements. The adviser announced that offices would
be set up for issuing national identity cards to people of the tribe. He
said resolution of the Balochistan issue was the top priority of the prime
minister and the PPP co-chairman and the confidence of the Baloch people
would be restored.
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The destruction of another Sunni mosque in
Iran and its consequences
By Reza Hossein Borr ; 29-08-2008
The security forces of Iran attacked a mosque
and a religious school at three o'clock in the morning today, 27 August
2008, arrested the students and staff and destroyed the mosque and the
religious school in the North East of Baluchistan, Iran. The security forces
used several bulldozers and tractors to completely destroy the building of
Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in Azimabad, a suburb of the city of Zabol. Nobody
knows what has happened to the students, teachers and staff of the school
and the mosque. The people who witnessed this morning operations observed
that the students and teachers were very frightened. The security forces
began beating them as soon as they attacked the school and bundled them into
secure police cars as they were crying and screaming. The attack happened at
a time that all of the students and staff were sleeping. There was not any
warning by the police or security forces about the destruction of the mosque
and the school.
The Iranian authorities destroyed another mosque about a year ago in the
northern part of Iran and its Imam and staff were arrested and thrown into
prison. Several mosques which belonged to the Sunnis of Iran have been
destroyed since the emergence of the Shia fanatic Republic of Iran. There
are 15 to 20 million Sunnis in Iran. They have been discriminated against
systematically. Molana Ahamad Narouee, the deputy director of the main
theological school in Zahedan was arrested two weeks ago. The security
forces have demanded that the religious school must expel all foreign
students who are studying at the school. According to the head of the school
a small number of students from the Central Asian republics are studying in
the school. But they have been denied students visas. There are hundreds of
Shia students from the Central Asian republics who are studying in different
Shia theological schools of Iran.
Fifteen thousand foreign students are studying in the Iranian Shia schools.
The Iranian regime has given them scholarship and pays for their families
too. These students learn the Iranian version of Shia which believes the
Sunnis are infidels. The students will return back to their home countries
with very strong radical, militant and anti-Sunni studies which will create
enormous divisions between the Sunnis and Shia population of Islamic
countries.
Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque was destroyed once before and the people had to
relocate it. The religious leaders of Baluchistan and Iran protested against
destruction of the Sunni mosques but so far the Iranian regime has continued
its policy of destroying Sunni mosques in different parts of Iran while it
is building new Shia mosques in Sunni dominated villages and cities. The
Irna news agency reported on 25th of August that the government has sent 600
Shia missionaries to the Sunni dominated areas of Baluchistan to convert the
Sunnis in Islam as if the Sunnis are not Moslems. The way they have trained
these missionaries indicate that they clearly believe that the Sunnis are
not Moslems and they must be converted into Shiism which is the real Islam.
The process of Shiaeezation of the Sunnis began from the beginning of
Islamic Republic but so far the regime has very little success in converting
the Sunnis into Shiism, yet the financial rewards that the Iranian regime is
providing for the newly-converted Moslems (Shia) have been very tempting as
some of the Afghani and Pakistani Shias have gone to Iran and claimed to be
Baluch Sunnis and they were ready to have the honour of becoming Moslems (Shia).
The Shia fanatic regime pays thousands of dollars to the newly converted
Shias to persuade them to convert their relatives and children. Consequently
some bloody disputes have happened among the members of the same family who
have refused to change their religion.
The destruction of Imam Abu Hanifa Mosque in Azimabad will not be the last
onslaught of the Shia regime on the Sunnis of Iran. The Iranian constitution
allows diversity of religion and respects the performance of religious
duties but the Iranian regime ignores its own constitution and arrests
religious leaders, destroys the Sunni schools and mosques. In reaction to
the systematic Shia offensive on the Baluch and other Sunnis of Iran, the
process of intensification of religious feelings in Sunnis are widening and
deepening all over Iran. As the Iranian regime defines itself as the lawful
and legitimate heritage of Islam, the Iranian Sunnis have responded by
identifying themselves as true Moslems.
The Iranian Sunnis were usually secular minded people but the Shia
aggression has turned them into Sunni political militants. Lack of support
by the international community and Islamic countries have pushed the Sunni
Muslims of Iran towards the only sources of support that are available and
they are Taleban and Alqaedah. The international community could have
supported the Sunnis of Iran to move them away from Taleban and Alqaedah but
it seems that there is a concerted effort to allow the Islamic Shia regime
of Iran to continue the oppression of the Sunnis. There was some news that
some young Iranian Sunnis who have been disappointed by the Islamic and Arab
governments have become sympathetic to Taleban. The majority of the people
who live in the Eastern part of Iran are Sunnis and when they become
sympathetic to Taleban, the movement of Taleban and Alqaedah members and the
power of their manoeuvres in the region become more dynamic and widespread.
The pressure by the government on the Sunnis is so brutal that the Sunnis
feel desperate for any kind of help which relieves some of the pressures on
them. The Sunni governments and countries so far have refused to help them
directly as the Iranian regime is widely supporting the Shias of all
countries, or exerting some practical pressure on the Iranian regime to stop
further discrimination and pressure on them.
The international community must use all United Nations Conventions and
human rights charters which allow freedom of worship to exert pressure on
the Iranian regime to halt the destruction of Sunni mosques and media
onslaught on Sunni principles. The Iranian Sunnis witness everyday
unbearable offences against the Sunni principles of Islam. The
intensification of pressure on Sunnis would have severe consequences, not
only for Iran and Iranians but also for international community when the
patience of Sunnis ran out and a religious war between the two sects of
Islam may begin. At the same time when the pressure becomes unbearable on
the Sunnis of Iran they may look for separation from Iran as their locations
are located near the borders of Iran with other countries.
The Iranian government, the Shia population of Iran and the opposition
groups of Iran, Iranian intellectuals, journalists and human rights
activists will be responsible for any civil or religious war in Iran or for
any separatist movement that maybe created in Iran if they do not stop the
regime from further execution of the Sunni leaders and destruction of their
schools, mosques and violations of their rights. The political, social and
cultural discrimination against the Sunnis would have added consequences in
which the Sunni people of Iran will lose any hope for a better life in Iran.
Those Iranian who choose silence over the brutal oppression of the Iranian
nationalities and Sunnis will be responsible for any civil war that might
follow as the consequence of these repressive policies.
Reza Hossein Borr is an NLP Master Trainer and a leadership consultant and
the creator of 150 CDs and 14 Change management models. He is also the
author of Manual Success, Manual of Coaching and Mentoring, Motivational
Stories that Can Change Your Life, and a New Vision for the Islamic World.
He can be contacted by email:www.sarawani@aol.com www.rezaaa.com
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The United States
of America finally acknowledged the rights of Baluch people
29-08-2008
The United States of America finally acknowledged the rights of Baluch people and condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran for its brutal oppression of the Baluch people. The acknowledgement was presented on 28.8.08, in the Persian part of the Voice of America, View from Washington. In this short broadcast which expresses the official views of US foreign policy, the US condemned the violations of human rights in Baluchistan and condemned the execution of journalist, Yaghoub Mehrnehad. At the end of the broadcast a short clip of President Bush was broadcast in which he announced his support for the people of Iran in their endeavour for establishing democracy and assured the Iranian people that they will succeed.
ftp://8475.ftp.storage.akadns.net/wm/voa/nenaf/pers/video/pers1530vbTHU.wmv
View of US on Balochistan, minute, 1:57
Reza Hossein Borr
Balochistan Peoples Front
The Congress of Nationalities for a Federal Iran