Sunday, October 27, 2013

The world should realise that Tehran’s Mullahs are committing genocide in Baluchistan.

The world should realise that Tehran’s Mullahs are committing genocide in Baluchistan. Revenge- killing is a crime even by the state. Iranian regime selected 16 prisoners from the Baluch ethnic background because the people who have attack border guards were Baluch.

Friday night's attack (25/10/20013) in a mountainous region outside Saravan, on the south-eastern border with Pakistan,  left between 14 to 17 border guard dead numbers were injured according to BBC a rebel group called Jaish al-Adl had claimed responsibility for the ambush.

According to the chief prosecutor in Zahedan   Mohammad Marzieh, in retaliation, 16 Baluch prisoners who were jailed on different charges before Jash Al-Adl formed  were linked to the group and hanged early Saturday.

The judiciary official have not published the full list of those who have been hanged in Zahedan the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province.  It is not clear if the all executed men were already in jail in the Zahedan or were rounded up from streets after border Guards were attacked; those who have been hanged on Saturday were not connected to the border attack.

The people of the western Baluchistan are ethnically Baluch and religiously Sunni. Iran is a Shiite majority state. The Iranian invaded Baluchistan in 1927 and annexed Baluchistan into Persia. The Iranian government has openly uses their coercive force to subjugate the Baluch Nation.

The population in Sistan-Baluchistan are ethnically Baluch and adherent of Sunni doctrine of Islam they have been complaining of discrimination by Iran's Shitte establishment that govern Baluchistan from Tehran like a colony.

The life, dignity, liberty and the Baluch property is not safe in Iran. Assassinations, summary justices, Shiite judges, social stigma, collective punishment, humiliation and hanging people in groups in public arrogant Persian elites are driving the Baluch in Iran into desperate situation.

The Baluch language, religion, culture is different from the Persian; the Baluch are discriminated on the bases of their religion as well as their culture. The most Iranian cities lack a worship places for Sunni sect of Islam. The Baluch have remained at the bottom of the Iranian social hierarchy; the Baluch youth feel it there is no hope in sight.

The world should realise that Tehran’s Mullahs are committing genocide in Baluchistan. Revenge- killing is a crime even by the state. Iranian regime selected 16 prisoners from the Baluch ethnic background because the people who have attack border guards were Baluch.


M. sarjov is a Baluch political activist based in London.

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