Pakistan Army Used Civilians as Human Shields to Counter Our Attack: BLA
International community should intervene in Balochistan to stop Pakistan’s atrocities
LONDON: The Free Balochistan Movement (FBM) in a statement to media condemned the violent attack of Pakistan forces on 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 Pakistani forces violence against Baloch women and children adding that, ‘the world should realise 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.
The spokesperson of 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. It also declared East Timor its 27th province.
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.
The 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.
Pakistani forces brutalities against families of enforced-disappeared persons have become common occurrence in Balochistan.
The spokesperson said that current situation in Balochistan and the oppression of Baloch people by Pakistan calls for an international attention and intervention in Balochistan to stop Pakistan’s atrocities.
FBM statement further maintained in 1978 the then Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser recognised East Timor’s annexation by Indonesia and termed it de facto and later the Australian led peace forces intervened and liberated East Timor from Indonesia.
The Baloch people expects 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 Pakistan’s tyranny and occupation.
