Ahmar MustikhanBaltimore Foreign Policy Examiner
Baloch and other Americans will gather today Sunday (April 3, 2011) at noon to listen to the crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Balochistan, a Texas-sized stateless country in southwest Asia that the British left divided in August 1947.
The exact venue of the evnt is the statue of Mohandas K. Gandhi near 2107 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC, Northwest 20008 (Near the Dupont Circle Metro Station).
The pro-independence American Friends of Balochistan is holding the the event to mark the second anniversary of the killing of three prominent Balochistan activists, Ghulam Mohammed Baloch, Lala Munir Baloch and Sher Mohammed Baloch and an in celebration of their lives and times.
The three activists were abducted from their lawyer's office on April 3, 2009 and their bodies were found six days later at Pidarak foothills, 26 miles from Turbat.
"We are happy that this is being held at a time when Pakistan was defeated by India in world cup cricket," Malik Rehmani Baloch and Zahid Mir, presiding council members of American Friends of Balochistan said. "We congratulate India on this victory and urge their leadership to open their eyes about the real dangers emanating from islamabad. As the world's largest democracy, it is their bounden duty to help Balochistan win independence."
The situation is worsening in Balochistan by the day.
As many as 135 Baloch political and civil rights activists were forcibly disappeared, tortured and then killed execution-style since July last year. Their bodies were dumped in desloate places in the most flagrant violation of human dignity anywhere in the world.
Their tormentors are Pakistan military, Frontier Corps, Military Intelligence, and Inter-Services Intelligence, who are committing crimes against humanity in Occupied Balochistan.
Balochistan was invaded and annexed by Pakistan against the wishes of the Baloch people on March 27, 1948. Thousands of Baloch have perished in five uprisings against Pakistan's military occupation since then.
Pakistan also conducted deadly nuclear tests in Balochistan against the wishes of the secular Baloch people. The area remains plunged in an environmental holocaust as the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission prohibited any environmental impact assessment when the atomic tests were conducted there on May 28, 1998. recently, there have been reports of outbreak of disease among the nomadic population.
Let alone inside Occupied Balochistan, Pakistan's infamous Inter-Services Intelligence is now sending Taliban death squads to kill Baloch refugees outside Balochistan. On March 25, 2011 Pakistan dispatched a Taliban suicide bomber to attack the home of Dur Khan Bugti in Spin Boldak in Afghanistan.
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