Germany: Free Balochistan Movement held a protest rally in Hanover

BERLIN (Press Release): The Free Balochistan Movement, Germany Branch, staged a protest rally on Saturday against the murder of previously disappeared Baloch in fake encounters at the hands of the so call “Counter-Terrorism Department” (CTD) of Pakistani forces in Balochistan.

The protest began at 2:00 pm German time in front of the Hannover Central Station in Germany after the protesters marched through various busy streets to George Platz.

The rally participants held banners and placards with slogans against torture, human rights abuses and illegal occupation of Balochistan by Pakistan and Iran.

Participants also carried pictures of enforced disappeared people who were killed in staged encounters by the CTD.

Participants chanted slogans during the demonstration and distributed hundreds of pamphlets to spread awareness among the people.

The protesters were addressed by Mahgonag Baloch, Mohammad Baloch, Najib Baloch, Abdul Jabbar Baloch, Abdul Wajid Baloch, Khuda Dad Baloch and Abu Bakar Baloch who exposed the atrocities of Pakistan and Iran in occupied Balochistan.

The speakers said that Pakistan was pursuing its earlier infamous “kill and dump” policy of forcibly disappearing Baloch, it continued the same process by killing the disappeared Baloch and burying them in mass graves.

The speakers explained that now the Pakistan state forces have adopted a new policy under which the victims of enforced disappearances are fake encounters. The murder of more than 20 Baloch youth in fake encounters in a single month is a question mark for organisations that claim to protect human rights.

The Free Balochistan Movement in its statement further said that Pakistan has changed the method of Baloch genocide to misled the world. Pakistan is trying to give the impression to the world that it is taking action against the terrorists by killing the Baloch in its custody in the name of encounters by its “terrorist force CTD”.

The statement emphatically clarified that the people killed in CTD’s encounters were previously abducted and disappeared by Pakistani forces and they were being killed in staged encounters to cover up Pakistan’s crimes against humanity in Balochistan.

The speakers further said that while Pakistan is trying to deceive the world and unsuccessfully trying to prove that the victims of enforced disappearances in its custody are terrorists, we, Baloch, should inform the world with the same intensity about the crimes that Pakistan is committing in occupied Balochistan.