Tributes to Khalid Baloch and Sajid Baloch

Killed by Pakistan Army on August 19, 2011

Genocide is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948): – “any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.”

Since 1948, after the World War II, the countries that committed genocide have denied  it, and the civilized world that have committed itself not to allow it to happen again stood idle, avoiding to call an annihilation a genocide because they will be obliged to take action to stop it. We Baloch are squeezed between these two worlds, slaughtered by Iran and Pakistan but our situation not recognized as genocide by the West and the international community.

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Baloch, Sindhis Protest against Pakistani Atrocities at the 71st UNGA, New York

New York, Sept 21: Baloch National Movement (BNM) released a statement today regarding the joint protest of Baloch and Sindhi activists held outside the United Nations to condemn the Pakistani atrocities and the ‘ongoing military operations’ in Sindh and Balochistan.

Baloch people have welcomed and are grateful for the support extended by the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi at such a critical juncture when our nation is struggling to be free from the illegal military occupation of Pakistan since 1948.

Joint protest held before UN office in Geneva to highlight Pak atrocities

[Switzerland]. Sept. 20 (ANI): Baloch people, Kashmiris from Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Sindhi community held a joint protest in front of the UN office in Geneva on Tuesday to highlight the atrocities on its people by Pakistan and also to oppose the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) .

Protesters held up banners reading “No to CPEC, We want freedom, go back China”.

Some protesters shouted, “Sindhi people say no to CPEC.”

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a fully militarized project: Paulo Casaca

He was of the opinion that harsh measures of war are taken against whoever protests and this is not coming to a halt.

ANI | Geneva | September 20, 2016: Maintaining that human rights violations in Balochistan are at its worst, Paulo Casaca, a former member of the European Parliament, said that the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a fully militarized project.

Casaca said that people who raise their voices on the issue in Pakistan are murdered and their bodies dumped.

Baloch activists stage protest at UN headquarters in New York

The protest was organised by the Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) on Tuesday across the street from the world body’s headquarters.

NEW YORK: Baloch activists on Wednesday gathered outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, to protest against what they consider to be Pakistan’s illegal occupation of Balochistan. This move comes less than a month after Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the Balochistan issue in his widely viewed Independence Day speech.

“Balochistan is not Pakistan,” and “Stop human rights violations in Balochistan,” were two of the messages displayed on banners during the protest. Participation in the event was open to all pro-Baloch freedom activists, and other human rights activists, and TOI learned that a few Indian human right activists who weren’t affiliated with any particular organization took part.

دنیا میں انسانی اقدار کا دفاع کرنے والے بلوچ نسل کشی پر خاموش ہیں ۔حمل حیدر کا جنیوا میں خطاب

بلوچ نیشنل موومنٹ کے مرکزی ترجمان نے کہا کہ بیس جون کو بی این ایم کے خارجہ سیکریٹری حمل حیدر بلوچ نے سوئٹزر لینڈ کے شہر جنیوا میں اقوام متحدہ کے ورکنگ گروپ ’’Working Group on Enforced Disappearance WGEID ‘‘ سے ملاقات کی اور بلوچستان میں پاکستان کی جانب سے انسانی حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں پر ایک تفصیلی رپورٹ پیش کی۔

حمل حیدر نے جنیوا ہی میں 21 جون کو اقوام متحدہ کے سائیڈ ایونٹ میں ایشین لیگل ریسورس سنٹر (ALRC) اور رائٹ لِولی ہُڈ ایوارڈ فاؤنڈیشن کے زیر اہتمام ایونٹ میں مقرر کے طور شرکت کی ۔ یہ پروگرام ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES AND EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS IN PAKISTAN کے عنوان سے تھا، جو ALRC کے سینئر ریسرچر بصیر نوید کی زیر صدارت منعقد تھا۔ دوسرے مقررین میں رائٹ لِولی ہُڈ ایوارڈ فاؤنڈیشن کے ڈائریکٹر شرن سرینواس، امریکہ میں مقیم کالم نگار حسن مجتبیٰ ، WISE پاکستان کے ڈائریکٹر بشریٰ خالق، منور لغاری، مہران بلوچ، حاتم بلوچ، ورلڈ سندھی کانگریس کے ڈاکٹر لکھو لوہانہ، جسمم کے شفیع برفت، یو این پو او کے فرنانڈو برگزاور سردار شوکت کشمیری شامل تھے۔

Balochistan #WalkForFreedom in South Korea Reaches UN in Seoul

Seoul, April 4, 2016: Baloch long march activists, headed by Naseer Baloch, arrived at the UN offices in Seoul, South Korea today.  In nine days they covered a distance of 463km, from Busan city, the southeastern tip of the Korean peninsula to Seoul, the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.

The five-member team of Baloch activists started the long march under the banner, “Walk for Freedom” on March 27, 2016 with a protest rally in Busan city. It is worth mentioning here that ‘March 27’ is remembered in Baloch annals as a ‘black day’ when in 1948, the sovereign state of Balochistan was illegally occupied by Pakistan through a military invasion.