Iranian Forces Kill Five Baloch Extra Judicially!

Sarbaaz- The theocratic colonial Iranian regime has pushed the extra Judicial killings of Baloch people to extreme limits in western Balochistan. 

According to information five Baloch youths were found dead in Iranshahr local hospital on Monday with severe torture marks on their bodies in western Balochistan. The local reports citing the family sources say they were picked up by Iranian security forces from their homes in different area Iranshahr city.  They were indentified as Nazir Zardkohi, Mohsan Baloch, Hamid Zardkohi and Khalid Seyahani and Hoshang Zardkohi.

Earlier on Thursday a local, Shaheen Baloch was killed in the similar manner by Iranian security forces and his dead bodies was found in Chahbahar city hospital bearing severe torture marks with no apparent reasons.

Iron curtained Western Balochistan is a no go area for international Media. Imagining of access to a proper judicial system in Iran for oppressed Baloch and other nationalities is a luxurious thinking for civilized world. 

Political opponents are often arrested and killed in torture cells or executed on streets with false allegations such as Muharibs or drug smugglers.

Western Balochistan under Iranian control is currently witnessing an Insurgency against Iran it occupied in 1928 when Mir Dost Mohammed Khan Barakzai was ruling.

Pak Army Operation in Balochistan - 5 Baloch killed, 6 Injured and 31 abducted - Baloch Media Reports

19/02/2014

 Occupied Balochistan  - Today in the early morning Pakistani army, backed by gunship helicopters conducted a gory operation in Goro, Mullay Gazzi and  surrounding areas of sub-district Jahao, Awaran.  According to reports 5 people were killed and 6 others injured by aerial bombardment and ground assault.  Among them a 9 years old child, Ganj Baksh’s condition is critically serious along with Hasa Baloch. The information we received confirmed the names of those who were killed in this  unprovoked grisly operation are Nawaz s/o Nodal, Tajo Haji, Master Mullah Noor Mohmed s/o Mussa, Gulam Jan s/o Noora and Talib s/o Malang. The village Ebrahim Metag has entirely been burned to ashes by rampant forces of Pak army; the locals informed the Baloch media.

In this unprovoked operation 31 Baloch have also been abducted by security forces and taken to unknown place the information said;  among them a Balochi language poet Hasil Hasrat along other abductees including Mullah Ebrahim, Mullah Mossa, Mullah Nazeer, Shams, Siddique, Doulat Baloch,  Mullah Alam, Diljan,  Feroz Shah,  Salih Mohmed,  Qadir, Khuzor Baksh,  Din Mohmed, Lal Baksh,  Nazeer, Raza, Kareem Dad, Pullan, Aqeel, Seraj, Moula Baksh, Sawal, AKhter, Salim Baloch, Wazir, Sabir, Attaullah, Swadi, Khair Mohmed and Abdullah.

The reports received by Baloch media also said that the forces looted all shops in Gori village of Jaho sub district and razed three shops to ground. The locals said that the unbridled forces of Pak Army burned the houses of Master Shahdad to ashes after looting the valuables of the poor villager.  

It is noteworthy to mention here that  Awaran district has gone through a devastating earth quake a few months back,  and people are still shelter less and security forces have declared entire Awaran district a no go area for reporters and aid workers.  The international media is totally barred from interring Balochistan and Pakistan’s own main stream media is toeing Pakistani policy line which is based on a policy that allows state forces to abduct, kill and dump the Baloch people on massive scale under media blackout.

Iran Secretly Buries the Executed Dead Bodies of Baloch Activists

By Archen Baloch

Western Balochistan  - Under the Iron curtain of media blackout, the Iranian theocratic regime has buried seven unidentified dead bodies of Baloch political activists in Zahidan Prison; a Baloch media outlet, Baloch Campaign quoted local sources as saying.

According to information posted on the site of balochcampaign.com, the officials of information ministry secretly buried these unfortunate dead bodies of Baloch people on 4^th February 2014, Tuesday morning.  

Baloch human rights campaigners say these people have probably been executed secretly away from public gaze. It is believed to be unusual of previous public hanging in occupied western Balochistan of Baloch activists. Last month it had hanged 40 Baloch activists on two occasions within a span of 30 days.

According to the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaeed “At least 40 persons have been reportedly hanged in Iran during the first two weeks of January, of which at least 33 executions were carried out in the past week alone. 625 executions, including at least 28 women and a number of political prisoners were reported to have been carried out in 2013”.

According to analyses, without international community support, Baloch alone cannot deter the Persian dominant regime of Iran from committing heinous crimes against humanity in western occupied Balochistan which was occupied in 1928 by Persian king with deception and naked aggression. Since then the Persian rulers left no stone unturned in deploying brute force against Baloch political workers and human rights campaigners for justice. 

Eight Pakistani soldiers killed in an ambush by Baloch fighters

 2013-12-08

By Archen Baloch

Balochistan - Eight Pakistani security personnel have been reportedly killed in an ambush by Baloch freedom fighters in Katrenz area of Mand, Balochistan on Sunday.

According to details the social media sources and local sources reported that Baloch freedom fighter, also known as the Sarmachars, have ambushed a convoy of Pakistani security forces when it was when passing through Katrenz mountainous area of Mand town.

At least two vehicles have been completely destroyed in the attack and more than 8 personnel have reportedly died and several others have been wounded.

Meanwhile the Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) claimed in a statement to media that it has carried out the attacks on occupying forces.

The BLF spokesperson Gwahram Baloch vowed to continue such attack against Pakistani forces until their complete withdraws from Balochistan.

The spokesperson of Pakistan army confirmed the rocket attacks on a convoy of security forces in a statement to Pakistani media but denied any casualties.

Separately, local sources reported a barrage of rocket attacks on Mashkel town by Iranian Army on the arbitrary border between Pakistan and Iran.

No fatalities have been reported until the filing of this report.

However, People living on the border areas are highly apprehensive of the tense situation and lamented that both Pakistan and Iran have closed the border entrance points for local traders.

Last month an armed resistance organization Jash al Adal (Army of Justice) carried out a fatal attack on Iranian forces killing at least 16 personnel of Iranian revolutionary guards and abducting 4 others.

In response to the attack the Iranian guards hanged 16 Baloch political prisoners in ‘revenge execution’ in central prison of Zahedan.

The Jash al Adal on 4 December carried out another attack in ‘Kuhag Askan’ region of Saravan Iranian occupied Balochistan and claimed to have killed 30 Iranian soldiers.

Three members of the Jash namely Ziayee, Abdul Malik Mollazada and Neyamatullah Tohidi also died in the gun battle between Iranian forces and Sunni Baloch rebels.

The Jash claimed the attack was on response to the killing of ‘innocent Baloch prisoners’ by Iran in Zahedan.

Since then Iranian forces have carried out several attacks on towns and villages situated along the arbitrary borders between Iran and Pakistan occupied Balochistan, a social media activist Banuk Noori Baloch told this scribe.

She said that people living on the bordering areas are suffering from economic hardship as theirs only source of income is the import and export of good from both sides of the border. Given the tense situation and insecurity, she said the unemployment is on rise.

Pakistani forces abducted Teenage Baloch student from Quetta

By Archen Baloch 2013-12-03

 Quetta :  The state security agencies abducted a 19 years old student from Satellite Town area of Quetta on Tuesday.

According to information 33 vehicles of Pakistan security forces with cordoned off the entire Baloch hotel midnight and searched all the room forcing students to stay out.

The forces abducted Mehrab s/o Shoukat Baloch. He is a resident of Kalatuk village Kech district of Balochistan.

According to report, Mehrab Baloch was abducted after confirming his identity. A close family member told this scribe: “They started beating him up inhumanly in front of 50 fellow students before taking him to an unknown place.”

His family said that he had no affiliation with any political party.

In order to continue his study he came to Quetta and started preparing for University admission two months ago at Baloch Hostel of Balochistan University Campus after finishing his study at Turbat BRC College.

Yesterday Pakistan security forces abducted Asghar Baloch an activist of the Baloch Republican Party from Gokdan area of Thump Balochistan.

Sources said Asghar Baloch was on his way back home to Thump from Turbat when Pakistani forces seized him and took him to an unknown location.

It is noteworthy to mention here that students are worst victims of state's repressive policy of "abduct, kill and dump across Balochistan, so far more than 18000 Baloch activists have been extra-judicially abducted, among them more than 1500 have been killed and dumped in desolate areas.

BLA releases two Levis personnel unharmed and urges Arab states to support Baloch struggle

2013-11-28 

By Archen Baloch

Kharan  - The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) in a statement said on Thursday that it has released two Levis personnel unharmed from Kharan, Balochistan.

According to sources a spokesperson of the BLA informed media persons from an undisclosed location that the Organisation has released the tow Levis personnel, namely Riyaz and Allah Dad after a thorough investigation finding them not involved in any sort of anti Baloch activities.

The BLA spokesman, Jiyand Baloch’ also accepted the responsibility for an attack on Panjgur airport radar system that had extensively damaged it.

Spokesperson said: “The seizure of the vehicle of Sheikh Khalifa Gaib in Kharan last month was a brief political to the Arab dignitaries on behalf of Baloch liberation movement that we are in a state of war against Pakistan hence the Arabs should refrain from coming to Balochistan, especially with permission of Pakistani state.”

He added: “Our Arabs neighbours should also refrain from kind of capital investment with Pakistan in Balochistan as historically Baloch nation has nothing in common with Pakistan, adding that Baloch nation regards Pakistan as a colonial state and it has forcefully occupied Balochistan.”

The spokesperson of BLA revealed Pakistani security forces want to physically harm the Arab dignitaries and Arab nationals in Balochistan and blame it on Baloch resistance organizations in an attempt to defame the Baloch freedom struggle.

He said since Baloch are in a state of war from past many years that’s why it is not possible for them and resistance organizations to provide security to the Arab sheiks and nationals.

“We urge the Arab sheiks not to visit Balochistan until Balochistan’s issue is resolved and Baloch nation regains their sovereignty,” said Mr Baloch.

The spokesperson of BLA citing the centuries old historical relationship between the two brotherly nations Arab and Baloch said that Baloch nations have always had good relations with the Arabs.

The Baloch will establish cordial relations with their neighboring Arab states after liberation of Balochistan provided they recognise Balochistan as an illegally occupied territory by Pakistan and they extend their political, moral and diplomatic support to Baloch freedom struggle.

Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Long March and Baloch struggle for national liberation

2013-11-22

Archen Baloch Twenty relatives of enforced-disappeared Baloch started a 750km long march on 27 October 2013 from Quetta to Karachi. The purpose of the march was to protest the adamancy of the Pakistani state policy that refuses to produce the missing persons before the courts to give them the opportunity to defend themselves. This long march culminated in Karachi yesterday after travelling 27 days long journey passing through some of the most difficult terrains of Balochistan. As the March entered Karachi people have greeted them in thousands and showered them with flowers. On its final day the foot march walked from Mawach Goth to Karachi Press Club and were joined by 20,000 people, most Sindhi and Baloch activists. Mama Qadeer Baloch, Farzana Majeed and Bibi Gul Baloch led the caravn of the families of the missing person to Karachi. The walked with blistered feet but with dedication and conviction. Addressing the crowd and media person Qadeer Baloch and other vowed to continue the struggle for peace and justice and said that he would not hesitate to raise the voice of the Baloch missing persons even if he and his colleagues had to travel to Islamabad or knock the door of UN headquarters or seek support from Commonwealth. Pakistani media turned a blind eye to the 750km long march of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. However, Baloch Social Media Activists (BSMA) started a twitter campaign using hashtag #VBMLongMarch to galvanize the international media attention towards enforced disappearances at the hands of security agencies. Pakistani media apathy towards Baloch missing persons reinforced the impression that there is a tacit agreement between Pakistani army and media regarding “abduct, kill and dump policy” of Baloch political activists. More than 18000 Baloch political activists have been abducted by Pakistan agencies across Balochistan. Out of them more than 1500 mutilated dead bodies have been found in desolate areas, the dead bodies of the victims bore inhuman torture marks including severed body parts. Current Baloch insurgency is the continuation of the several previous attempts of Baloch people to regain their independence dating back to day one when Pakistan forcefully occupied and annexed sovereign Baloch on 27th March 1948 against the will of Baloch people in the name shared religion. Indeed, In order to stop the general public from participating in the freedom struggle, Pakistani armed forces started unwarranted arrest of political workers from every walk of life including lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists and among them the students borne the brunt of this savagery. As was writing this article, I have been informed that a mutilated dead body was found in Herronk of Kech District he was identified as Rehmat Pindok. He was reportedly abducted yesterday from Hoshab area of the same district. Last September a UN working group briefly visited Balochistan under Pakistani restrictions and met few family members of the missing persons but the group was confined to Quetta only. Most recently the victims of the devastating earthquake were left at the mercy of Pakistan army and UN and other international aid agencies were not allowed to help them. Balochistan is totally off- limit to International media as well. Local journalists are working in extremely dangerous conditions. Many Baloch journalists have been disappeared and killed while on line of duty. Pakistan has developed distorting narrative regarding Baloch and Balochistan crisis. The information about Baloch demand and insurgency fed to international media from Islamabad bottleneck are extremely distorting. An article from Islamabad posted in Miami Herald described Baloch insurgency in its second paragraph as: “Pakistani authorities battle a separatist insurgency in Baluchistan, heartland of the country's ethnic Baluch minority.” The ninth paragraph of the same article read: “Baluch nationalists have been waging a low-level insurgency for decades, demanding greater autonomy and a larger share of Baluchistan's natural resources.” These two paragraphs are evidently self-contradicting because even if the Baloch freedom fighters are described as separatists, then why would they demand greater share in resources? This contradiction also shows that even the international media based in Islamabad are forced to follow the false narrative of Pakistan army regarding Balochistan crisis. The international media should either visit Baloch to know the true aspirations of Baloch people and the Baloch national struggle for liberation or they must at least contact the true representative of Baloch freedom struggle living abroad to report facts about Balochistan. The world and international media must know that Balochistan is an occupied territory and Baloch are struggling to regain their independence. http://balochwarna.com/features/articles.108/Voice-for-Baloch-Missing-Persons-Long-March-and-Baloch-struggle-for-national-liberation.html#.UpAZrJOYE7U.facebook The writer is a freelancer, human rights and social media activist. He blogs at: http://www.archenspeaks.blogspot.co.ukand tweets at twitter.com/ArchenBaloch.