Samantha Power, scholar and academic genius against genocide, who might become the Secretary of State in the next administration if Obama wins.
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NY Daily News
Ahmar Mustikhan, Baltimore Foreign Policy Examiner
An American scholar and academic has said six million Baloch people in Balochistan were being subjected to the worst form of human rights violations, unheard of in the world since the reign of terror of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
In the last four months alone, 90 activists have been forcibly abducted, killed and their bodies dumped, Selig S. Harrison, Asia Director at the Center of International Policy, told the Turmoil in Balochistan seminar held at the United States Institute of Peace on Constitution Avenue Friday.
Harrison is the best known U.S. academic who knows almost everyone in Balochistan. He wrote an epic book In Afghanistan's Shadow: Baluch Nationalism and Soviet Temptations.
Harrison asked the audience, which included about 50 US academics, scholars, writers and diplomats, why should Balochistan matter to the United States and then proceeded to answer the human rights violations in Balochistan, land of the secular Baloch people, as the number one reason the U.S. could not afford to remain oblivious because of its evangelical ambition to do the right thing globally.
Just a month ago, while explaining the U.S. help to the Libyan democratic resistance, President Barack Obama publicly said some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. "The United States of America is different. And as president, I refused to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves before taking action." According to Washington insiders, Obama was prodded to take this line on Libya by his most trusted confidante on foreign affairs and a genius like himself from Harvard University, Samantha Power.
Power is the author of the book A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide.
The second reason Harrison said why U.S. should have a stake in Balochistan was its sexy strategic location as the northern lip of the Straits of Hormuz, with a coastline that is 1,100 kilometers. "An independent Balochistan will not be a threat to U.S. interests," elaborating, "The U.S. has nothing to fear from an independent Balochistan."
He cited the Islamabad has given carte blanche to Beijing at the key port of Gwadar.
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