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Balochistan rights group condemns violent attack of Pakistani forces on peaceful vigil in Karachi
London: The UK-based Balochistan rights group, Free Balochistan Movement (FBM), in a statement to the media, has condemned the violent attack of the Pakistani forces on the peaceful vigil of the families of forcibly disappeared persons and other peaceful protesters in Karachi.
The FBM has urged the international community to take notice of the violence of the Pakistani forces against Baloch women and children.
“The world should realize that Pakistan has illegally occupied Balochistan and to sustain its illegal colonisation, Pakistan is resorting to inhuman and brutal violence against the Baloch nation and rampaging international laws,” it added in the statement.
The Karachi police on Monday night arrested dozens of protesters, including women, who were staging a sit-in demonstration outside the Sindh Assembly against the alleged forcible abduction of the two missing students.
Authorities’ heavy-handed approach against Baloch protesters went viral on social media as people called for action to be taken against police brutality, according to Pakistan media reports.
The spokesperson of the Free Balochistan information department said that the case of Balochistan is similar to that of East Timor’s occupation and forcible annexation to Indonesia in 1975.
Like Today’s Pakistan in Balochistan, Indonesia had resorted to violence and killed thousands of people in East Timor to maintain its occupation. Pakistan occupied Balochistan in 1948 and has been involved in atrocities against Baloch ever since, its statement read.
The Free Balochistan spokesperson further explained that the violence perpetrated by Pakistan includes enforced disappearance of Baloch people, arbitrary arrests, extrajudicial murder, in-custody torture and murder and fake encounters in which hundreds of unarmed Baloch have been killed in cold blood.
The latest indiscrimination against Baloch students and racial profiling of Baloch youth at Education centres in Punjab has brought Pakistan’s hatred against Baloch people to a new level, it added in the statement.
The Free Balochistan spokesman said that the current situation in Balochistan and the oppression of Baloch people by Pakistan call for international attention and intervention in Balochistan to stop Pakistan’s atrocities.
"The Baloch people expect the international community to act like Malcolm Fraser and Australia and intervene in Balochistan to stop Pakistani aggression and atrocities on Baloch people and help the Baloch nation to free itself from the yoke of Pakistan’s tyranny and occupation," the FBM said.
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