Balochistan: lack of jobs and Iranian forces carelessness taking lives

Dozzaap (Zahedan): One Baloch youth have died while another two were wounded in an accident on the border in Bugan whereas another man died due carelessness of the Iranian security forces in a hospital in Zahedan on Sunday, July 19.

According to Rasank, quoting the Baloch Activists’ Campaign, on Sunday, July 19, 2020, three fuel traders residents of Ferozabad village in Rask city [Iranian Occupied Balochistan] were killed and wounded when their fuel truck overturned at the zero-point near Bugan border.

The driver of the vehicle Reza Razmposh son of Murad Mohammad was killed and two others Faiz Mohammad Dakali son of Nadim and Saud Rashkan son of Ramzan were injured in the accident at the Bugan zero-point crossing on Balochistan border.

A relative of Reza said that due to lack of a suitable job he had turned to fuel trading. He wanted to get married and his family was eagerly busy in his wedding preparation when he lost his life in this accident.

The condition of the other two injured youths was said to be stable.

Due to the lack of suitable jobs and severe economic pressures, the Baloch people [especially youth] are forced to start fuel trading, and more than a hundred Baloch youths die every year due to the overturning of a car and the indiscriminate shooting of Iranian ‘law enforcement’ forces.

Meanwhile, another Baloch citizen named Ismail Tootazahi son of Mohammad resident of Dozzaap (Zahedan) died after being transferred to the hospital.

Ismail spent ten days in a coma after he was shot and wounded by Iran’s military forces about a month ago. He had milk powder in his possession when the Iranian forces shot him.

At least five bullets pierced his lower torso and he was arrested unconscious injured condition but as he regained his conscious after 27 days of the comma, he was transferred to prison.

 Due to the lack of medical attention from security forces and prison staff his wounded inflamed, he had an infection and his condition deteriorated.

As his condition got worse and incurable then he was shifted to the hospital where the doctors unable to do anything to save his life and he died on  Sunday 19 July 2020.

Ismail was married and had children but the carelessness of Iranian forces deprived his children of their father and his family of a loved one.

The prison conditions in Iranian Occupied Balochistan (IOB) are appalling and Iranian forces deliberately ignore the demands of Balochistan’s inmates for basic facilities including electric, water, and medical necessities.