| Once I travelled from Eastern Balochstan, Pakistan | | | | reality in Sistan-Balochistan. Because Iranian security |
| to the Western part of Balochistan, Iran to offer my | | | | forces have a strong grip in Balochistan, they are |
| condolences to a family who lost their loved one. It | | | | indiscriminately arresting the Baloch youth and |
| was a short one and half hour drive. As soon as we | | | | labeling them as a terrorists, smugglers, and as anti |
| reached the famous Goldsmith border line which has | | | | Islamic. Hundreds of Baloch youth are hanged in public. |
| been drawn back in the 19th century, Balochistan | | | | Many Baloch religious leaders (Sunni minority group) |
| was divided among Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan by | | | | are executed and assassinated by the Iranian regime. |
| the British Empire’s “divide and rule” | | | | |
| policy. | | | | " The civil campaign and political activities are illegal |
| | | | | and illegitimate in Balochistan and therefore, anybody |
| Baloch leaders have referred such border as | | | | who engage in civil campaign peaceful activities can |
| “artificial.” In fact, these artificial borders are | | | | condemned to death." Says Reza Hossein Borr a |
| very unpopular among the Baloch people due to | | | | Baloch intellectual’s . |
| many decades of tyranny that has been pressed | | | | |
| upon them. Indeed Iran and Pakisrtan have both | | | | Since the forceful occupation of Western Balochistan |
| failed to win the hearts and minds of the Baloch | | | | by Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1928, The dark history of |
| people. | | | | aggressive polices of all Iranian regimes towards |
| | | | | Balochistan is not hidden. Baloch people are deprived |
| As soon as we cross the border I could easily see | | | | their linguistic, cultural, social, political, and economical |
| the Iranian security at the top of the mountain, | | | | rights. |
| sheltered by their bunkers, their eyes were chasing | | | | |
| and looking for individuals fleeing or entering its | | | | “According to the official figures of Iranian |
| borders under the gaping sun and scorching heat. | | | | regimes 76 percent of the Baloch people live in |
| Their was a tiny village near the border, as our | | | | poverty line such high level of the poverty line result |
| vehicle entered, their were family compounds. As | | | | of the deliberate policies of the Iranians regimes for |
| soon as we went inside the house, within five | | | | eradicating the Baloch people through salvation." |
| minutes two Iranians security force vehicles rushed | | | | |
| inside the compound, they parked right next to | | | | Baloch people believe the United Nations can play the |
| our vehicle. | | | | important role resolving the Balochistan conflict. Their |
| | | | | involvement will help to stop the further genocide, |
| "You know how the Jews of Russia feel now. That is | | | | aggressions, arrest, torch red, extrajudicial killing, |
| how I feel --- like a slave." Says Kurdish leaders | | | | displacement and assassinations of Baloch leaders. If |
| Mustafa Barzani. | | | | the Balochistan crisis continues to be ignored by the |
| | | | | world, such atrocities and aggressions will continue by |
| As a Baloch I felt the same way because. The same | | | | both regimes of Iran and Pakistan. |
| security force on May 16, 2007 shot and killed an 11 | | | | |
| year old innocent Baloch girl Roya Sarani right | | | | According to the international court of justice |
| front of her house as her powerless father and | | | | “crimes against humanity” is explained in the |
| brothers stared with a complete sense of | | | | article # 7 |
| helplessness. She was coming from her school exams | | | | |
| in city of Zahedan, Sistan-Balochistan. In Eastern | | | | (a) Murder (b) Extermination (d) deportation or |
| Balochistan, on May 2008 city of Dera Bugti, three | | | | forcible transfer of population (e) imprisonment or |
| innocent peasant Bugti trbe members Nazar | | | | other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation |
| Mohammed Bugti, Rostam Bugti, and Jeo Bugti were | | | | of fundamental rules of international laws; (f) torture |
| burned alive to death. Such extreme acts of brutality | | | | (h) persecutions against any identifiable group or |
| from the state security forces are crime against | | | | collectivity of political, racial, national ethnic, cultural, |
| humanity. | | | | religious, gender.... (i) enforced disappearance of |
| | | | | persons;" |
| When 28 years old Yaqoub Mehrnehad a cultural | | | | |
| and human rights activist from the capital city of | | | | |
| Zahedan, Sistan-Balochistan, was arrested on May | | | | All of the acts have been committed by the both |
| 2007 by Iranian security forces. He was taken to an | | | | regimes against the native Baloch people. This is the |
| unknown location, never explained what his crime and | | | | moral duty of the United Nations to step in and |
| guilt? Neither gave him an opportunity in the court to | | | | perceive both ruthless regimes to resolve the legal |
| present his evidence to prove his innocence, he | | | | and legitimate demands of the Baloch leaders. |
| suffered some of the worst torture in prison. | | | | |
| Amnesty International expressed their concern of his | | | | Otherwise, the un-ending crisis in Balochistan will |
| illegal arrest and safety. | | | | hardly come closer to being resolved. The two |
| | | | | un-democratic regimes have proven with previous |
| He was the head of, “Voice of justice youth | | | | records that they will keep betraying the Baloch |
| associations” which is a non-governmental | | | | people and continue their evil polices towards them. |
| organization, his activities were purely about the | | | | They will continue their aggressive polices and |
| promotion of Baloch culture and education. Trying to | | | | keep depraving the Baloch by denying their |
| reaching to the young and help them in many fields | | | | economical, political, linguistic, cultural, and religious |
| of education. He was a writer and reporter for the | | | | rights . On the other hand Baloch leaders are tired of |
| newspaper Mardomsalri which is based in Tehran. | | | | begging for their autonomy. |
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| On August 4, 2008 he was executed in the city of | | | | You can not treat the cancer patient with the |
| Zahedan, Balochistan, Iran. | | | | bandage, the crisis in Balochistan is not a scratch but |
| | | | | more a deep gash. That’s what both theocratic |
| I would say in all part of Sistan-Balochistan, Iran | | | | and dictatorial regimes Iran and Pakistan have been |
| there is complete vacuum of free media due to the | | | | doing for many years. From the Baloch prospective |
| fact that the media is control by a radical regime, | | | | Balochistan’s un-ending crisis is reaching to a point |
| who provides biased news reports about the ground | | | | of no return. |