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Norway and Sweden Torture Day 26 June

SwedenUnited Nations has designated 26th June as the International Day against Torture. This day is designated to emphasize the importance of the right to personal dignity and security for all individuals around the world. It is the day to remember that each person’s rights are protected and guaranteed within the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. On 26 June 1987 the Convention against Torture came into force. It was an important step in the much-needed process of globalising human rights and acknowledging that torture, and all forms of inhuman or degrading treatments or punishments, are absolutely and universally illegal.

Baluch Community in Sweden, BSO-azaad and BUC (Sweden) organised a joinet protest in GOTENBOURG SWEDEN on 26 June, the International Day in support of torture victims. Talking about the importance of the International Day in support of torture victims the Baloch protester said that like other occupied Nations around the world the Baluch people have also been facing torture, death, destruction, extra judicial killings and arrests and enforced disappearances since the illegal occupation of their motherland by the states of Iran and Pakistan. Both Islamic states have committed unprecedented atrocities in Baluchistan. Many hundreds of Baluch political activists have been tortured and killed under torture in detention. Those who have survived the ordeal are left with permanent emotional and physical disabilities.

At present around 8,000 Baluch political and student activists have been forcefully disappeared by Pakistani state intelligence agencies. Hundreds are behind bars for crimes they did not commit. The situation of the Baluch people is not any better under Iranian occupied Baluchistan. No single day goes by without arrest, imprisonment, torture and execution of a Baloch person. He strongly condemned the Human Rights Organisation for their silence on the gross torture and mistreatment of thousands of Baloch political and student activists at the hands of Pakistani intelligence agencies. We appealed all free born and human loving people to raise voice against the Human Rights violations in Balochistan.

Today we are protesting here to expose the atrocities of Iran and Pakistan against the innocent people of Baluchistan. We want to record and express our opposition against any type of torture. We also want to show our solidarity with the victims of torture in all other occupied territories.

At present there are several Baloch activists in the custody of Iranian Intelligence services and after the harrowing death of the two Baloch, their families fear that the rest of the activists might also be killed in the same manner.

The kind of torture Baluch forced abducted person suffer at the hand of Pakistan’s military intelligence and Para-military forces include; sensory deprivation, painful shackling, severe beatings, electric shocks, denial of medical care, being blindfolded and hung from the ceiling by their wrists, and subjected to repeated humiliations, indignities and barbarism for months, even year.

Life on the Geopolitical Fault Lines: Does Contemporary History of Balochistan Reflect Poland’s Past?
Part I
By: Belaar Baloch

.. . . the course of politics is the product of two sets of forces, impelling and guiding. The impetus is from the past, in the history embedded in a people’s character and tradition. The present guides the movement by economic wants and geographical opportunities. Statesmen and diplomatists succeed and fail pretty much as they recognize the irresistible power of these forces.” – Sir Halford Mackinder (1861-1947) [Gray & Sloan, 1999:02]



No country in contemporary Europe has absorbed so many jolts of history than Poland. Up until the last quarter of the 18th century, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a thriving entity with a vast landmass, stretching from the Baltic to the Black sea and a relatively strong army protecting monarchy and its border. By the end of the century, the kingdom had been plunged into a deep political crisis, subsequently expiring as its internal weaknesses were subjected to massive external pressures. Inevitably, neighbouring giants – Russia, Austria and Prussia – were on hand to pick up the pieces. In doing so, they made certain that in future, there would be no such thing as Poland in this region.



Despite this tripartite division of their homeland, the Poles continued to struggle for its reestablishment; they undoubtedly pinned their hopes on future and kept the dream of a free Poland alive, even as the heat of the Napoleonic wars crushed weak and powerful states alike. Polish claim to statehood was again denied in the negotiation of a post-war settlement the Vienna Congress, where Metternich and Castlereigh prevented small nations from attaining independence in the name of “maintenance of order and peace” in Europe.

News 26 June 2010

Balochistan: UN Told “Independence Must Be Restored”

The following is a statement made to the Geneva Press Press club on June 16th by the Baloch Representative to United Nations and Grandson of Sardar Attaullah Mengal and Nawab Khair Baksh Marri, Mr. Noordin Mengal, who spoke alongside his colleague, also a Baloch Representative to the United Nation, Mr. Mehran Baloch .

Below is an article published by PressClub.ch

''Balochistan which was once a unified and independent country is today divided between three countries, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The oppressed people of Pakistani occupied Balochistan have been victims of five intense military operations by the Pakistan army, since it invaded Balochistan on the 27th of March 1948 and forcibly incorporated it into Pakistan.

The rogue states of Pakistan and Iran have repeatedly attempted to subdue the Baloch movement for their rights and independence and have been usurping the wealth and natural resources of the Baloch soil. Pakistan would be unable to sustain its artificial existence without the resources of Balochistan. The Punjabi-Pakistanis and the Iranians have been systematically carrying out what can be called the social, political, economic, cultural, and physical genocide of the Baloch people.