Photos and pressrelease from demonstration in Oslo Norway...

Letter:

The fifth operation against the Baloch by the>Pakistani security forces has already been launched>with fighter jets, gunship helicopters, heavy>artillery and military hard wares. During the military>operation, the Baloch people have been subjected to>severe human rights violations ranging from enforced>disappearances, torture, mass killings, target>killings, illegal detention of civil and political>activists.>>In March 2007, a full-fledged military operation was>launched in Tump-Mand and Mashkay areas of>Balochistan. Only during the month of March, more than>50 Baloch were killed and about 100 were disappeared>or are being detained by the security agencies.>Furthermore, more than 20000 people have been>displaced. During the last five years of military>operation, according to human rights organizations,>more than 6000 people have been disappeared, 10000>killed and about 140000 displaced.>>On the other hand, Iranian regime has also started a>military operation against the Baloch of the Iranian>Occupied Balochistan. After the bomb blast in Zahidan,>reportedly by a shadowy organization known as>Jundullah, which killed more than 40 personnel of the>Revolutionary guards, hundreds of Baloch have been>arrested. Some of them were later publicly hanged by>the Iranian regime. According to reports, some 850>Baloch are in the custody of Iranian security agencies>who have already been condemned to be hanged.>Furthermore, Iranian regime has built a wall on its>border with Pakistan dividing the Baloch people.>>Pakistan and Iran have joined hands to suppress the>Baloch. Military campaign at Tump-Mand area was>launched by both the regimes in collaboration. Both>the regimes have also started a search operation in>Makkuran area and have arrested several innocent>Baloch.>>Baloch Unity Conference Norway shows its grave concern>over the excesses of Pakistani and Iranian regimes>against the Baloch nation. BUC Norway appeals to the>United Nations and the civilized countries of the>world to immediately intervene into the matter and>stop the acts of state terrorism by both the>aforementioned regimes against the Baloch people.>>Baloch Unity Conference Norway strongly proposes that>a fact finding mission should be established by the>United Nations to visit the restive region of>Balochistan.

Posted by Anwar Baloch>20070415

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