Who is next?

By Aaliyah Shah

The actions of Pakistani secret agencies and forces always prove that Balochistan or the Baloch are slaves. They are not safe even in their cities, districts towns and homes from the brutalities of Pakistani forces.

An innocent Baloch student Hayat Mirza was brutally murdered by the so-called Frontier Corps (FC) – the so-called protectors of the public’s lives and property. This unlawful cold-blooded murder indicates that they [Pakistani forces] think that they can kill Baloch youth and get away with it by hook or crook. They consider every Baloch a ‘terrorist’.

Pakistani secret agencies and the government killing extra judicially our virtuous children but with impunity from Pakistan judiciary and international humanitarian groups. Why Pakistan has been given a license to do whatever it likes in Balochistan?

Why the international community doesn’t question and held to account Pakistan and Pakistani intelligence agencies, military, Frontier Corps and other authorities? The silence of the UN and the rest of the international human rights group is as if they have green signaled Pakistan or given it a ‘go-ahead’ with its brutalities as they look the other side.  

Hayat Baloch an innocent Baloch youth was shot dead in front of his peasant father and mother. His parents could not do anything to save their child. The FC even did not allow them to go near their beloved son as he was breathing his last. The FC made no efforts to save his life. It was a plain, deliberate and planned act of murder and terrorism.  The Pakistani forces commit such crimes because they know that nobody questions them as they are above the law.

Hayat Mirza was not the only Baloch child who was brutally killed on 13, August 2020 in Absar Turbat, Balochistan. The FC committed such murder before and they will continue to commit such massacres in the future as well.

This is not the beginning nor is it the end of the extrajudicial killings innocent children, men, women brutally in cold-blood by the Pakistani state forces.  We now live in a state that every morning we leave home thinking whether we can make it home in the evening not because we do not know WHO IS NEXT?

Hayat means life. If life is not safe, if life is taken away then surely the rest of us are the next on the list of Pakistan’s unruly forces.

We can expect from Pakistani to target anyone, at any time and anywhere in Balochistan. Our crime is we Baloch. Their [Pakistani forces] job is to get rid of the Baloch to take over the Baloch land. They want Balochistan minus Baloch people.

Hayat Mirza’s family like all Baloch want justice and only justice. All we can do is either to raise voice against Hayat Baloch’s unlawful murder or wait for our turn to be the next target.

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