Prominent Baloch activist Mehrang highlights atrocities and brutal treatment meted out to the region by Pakistani government
On Monday, prominent Baloch activist Mahrang drew attention to the Pakistani state’s harsh and repressive treatment of the area.
Every family and household is impacted by state tyranny, and there is widespread protest, she added, adding that the cruelty and oppression of the Pakistani state in Balochistan has reached all extremities.
“The brutality and oppression of the state of Pakistan in Balochistan has gone beyond all boundaries and extremes,” she said in a post on X. Currently, governmental tyranny affects every family and household, and protests are common.
She further disclosed that strikes, rallies, and sit-ins are still going on across Balochistan.
“Sit-ins are ongoing in Hub Chowki and Hoshab against the enforced disappearance of Zubair Baloch, while in Shaheed Fida Chowk in Turbat, the families of Shaheed Zarif and Shaheed Naveed are holding sit-ins and strikes against the extrajudicial killing of their loved ones,” said the post on X.
بلوچستان میں ریاست پاکستان کے جبر اور بربریت نے ہر حد اور انتہا کو عبور کر لیا ہے۔ اس وقت ہر گھر اور گدان ریاستی جبر سے متاثر ہے اور سراپا احتجاج ہے۔
اس وقت بلوچستان کے مختلف مقامات پر دھرنے، احتجاج اور ہڑتالیں جاری ہیں۔حب چوکی اور ہوشاب میں زبیر بلوچ کی جبری گمشدگی کے خلاف… pic.twitter.com/ku2EwbXo0q
— Mahrang Baloch (@MahrangBaloch_) December 30, 2024
The Baloch Solidarity Committee is supporting the protest of the families of Shaheed Zarif Baloch, Shaheed Naveed Baloch, and Zubair Baloch, who were forcefully disappeared, by holding a protest rally in front of Baloch University today at 4 p.m.
Mahrang Baloch urged everyone to “join the protest and show solidarity with these families.”
Authorities have been threatening more people, according to the well-known Baloch rights organization, the Baloch Yakjehti Committee.
“The authorities are increasingly repressing and threatening the current protesters in Kech and Hub Chowki. The Frontier Corps (FC) has enforced a curfew in Kech, which has made demonstrators fearful. At some sites, protesters are being harassed, and there have been accusations of FC staff stealing cell phones in an attempt to scare and silence them.
𝗦𝗵𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗞𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗖𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗸𝗶 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀
The ongoing protests in Kech and Hub Chowki are facing increasing repression and threats from the authorities. At… pic.twitter.com/D8Dj7hBQRq
— Baloch Yakjehti Committee (@BalochYakjehtiC) December 30, 2024
The district government in Hub has directly threatened to clamp down on the demonstrators if the protests are not called off. It said that worries about the safety and wellbeing of the participating protesters and their families have increased as a result of this harsh attitude.
“The majority of the demonstrators are old people, women, and children who are already going through a lot of hardship. Their situation is made worse by the authorities’ use of threats, intimidation, and harassment in place of resolving their justifiable complaints. The rights group made an appeal, saying, “We urge all concerned citizens, civil society organizations, and human rights advocates to speak out against this injustice and guarantee the safety of those exercising their fundamental right to peaceful protest.”
