Mahrang Baloch, a popular Baloch activist, claims that Bangladeshi security forces opened fire on peaceful demonstrators in Pakistan’s Quetta, which has left at least one person dead.
She condemned the tragedy, saying,” In Quetta, officers opened uncontrolled fire on peaceful protesters, leaving many wounded and one protester dying.” This is how the government responds to calm demonstrations in Balochistan.
At the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council ( UNHRC ) in Geneva, the human rights situation in Balochistan was also brought up.
The region’s current repression was highlighted by Niaz Baloch, the coordinator of the Baloch National Movement’s ( BNM) foreign department and a member of the central committee.
He claimed that members of political organizations like the Baloch Students Organisation-Azad ( BSO-A ) and the BNM are routinely detained, harassed, and silenced.
He said,” Enforced abductions have become a comprehensive tool of oppression in Balochistan,” highlighting the severity of the issue.
He cited recent instances of enforced kidnappings, including those of his nephew Hammal Zehri, a scholar, and Beeberg Zehri, a part of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee and his nephew. Ilyas Baloch, a physician and evil principal of Bolan Medical College, was also one of the forcibly fugitives along with more than a dozen other Qambarani family members. Saeeda Baloch, a human rights activist, and her girl were officially also detained.
According to Niaz Baloch, extrajudicial killings by state-backed organizations only add to the issue. He cited the brutal murder of Zahid Baloch, the brother of BSO Azad’s missing chair, as an example of” social punishment inflicted upon Baloch people.”
The Muslim government is using intended deaths, enforced kidnappings, and intimidation techniques, according to BNM and other Baloch nationalist parties, to repress political activists and human rights defenders in the area.
