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Solidarity And Unity Of Kurdish and Baloch People In Oslo, Norway
Baluchistan Human Rights Association (BHRA) Norway, participated in a protest held in front of Norwegian Parliament building against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to social media reports, thousands of people gathered on Saturday, in front of Norwegian Parliament building in Oslo, Norway to honor the memory of the martyrs of Baluchistan and Kurdistan.
This demonstration showed that the unity and solidarity of the Kurdish and Baluch nations is unbreakable not only inside the geography of Iran, but also outside the country.
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Activists hold anti-Pakistan protest outside UN office in Geneva
Geneva [Switzerland], September 21 (ANI): The Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) organised a massive anti-Pakistan protest in front of the United Nations office in Geneva during the ongoing 51st session of the Human Rights Council.
They called upon the UN to send a fact-finding mission to Balochistan to investigate heinous crimes being committed by Pakistan Army and other secret agencies.
The demonstration was addressed by leaders of Baloch, Sindhis and Pakistan-occupied Kashmiri communities in exile and highlighted various aspects of human rights violations in Balochistan and termed them as genocide.
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Human Rights Violations In Balochistan: The Historical Context
Dr Naseer Dashti
During the last seven decades, the Pakistani state committed massacres and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan as a policy matter. Since 2002, these actions have increased exponentially. With the help of their auxiliary militias, death squads and religious outfits, military and civil intelligence agencies are involved in forced disappearances and illegal detentions of Baloch intellectuals, social personalities, and political activists in thousands. Dumping bodies of thousands of Baloch social and political activists with visible marks of inhuman torture has become a routine matter in Balochistan. The verified numbers of extrajudicially killed and missing persons during the last 17 years exceed 15 thousand. Nearly half a million people have been internally displaced. Thousands have fled and sought refuge in various countries, including the UK.
Why is all this happening in Balochistan?
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Canadian Parliament Exposes Pak Army Chief Gen. Bajwa as Violator of Human Rights
Visit of Pakistan’s Army General Qamar Javed Bajwa to Canada came under heated discussion in the Canadian Parliament on Monday.
Parliamentary Secretary of Canadian Defense Ministry Bryan May says allocation of the $50,000 for the reception of Pakistan’s Army Chief Qamar Javed Bajwa was ‘inappropriate’. His comments came in response to a fiery speech of the Canadian parliamentarian Tom Kmiec who slammed his government for approving the amount for COAS Bajwa’s reception from the taxpayer money of Canada.
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