The people of western Baluchistan are ethnically Baluch,
religiously Sunni. Iran is Shiite majority state ruled according to Shiite
doctrine or supreme Shiite religion leader wishes. The people of western
Baluchistan historically belong to once was the tribal confederation of
Baluchistan. Western Baluchistan historically is not part of Iran. The Iranian
forces invaded Baluchistan in 1927.
In 1892 Lord Curzon wrote; Baluchistan comprises of the
Godrosia, and part of Drangina, of the ancients; and it is a significant
illustration of the shadows that has rarely lifted from these region, and of
the precarious political existence which till lately they enjoyed. We can
hardly attribute to the Persian monarchy the sea coast of Gedrosia or Mukran
which extends along the Indian Ocean from cope of Jask to cope of Gwadar.
In the time of the Alexandra and probably many years afterwards, it was thinly inhabited by Baluch people who know little arts, who acknowledge no master, and who were divided by inhospitable desert from the rest of the world. It is an extraordinary, but never the less true from time of Alexandra’s march through Gedrosia and the navigation of his admiral along its shores we have no record of the visit of European to the interior of Baluchistan until 1809.
As long as the Baluch speak Baluchi language and follow the Sunni
Islam school of thought they are going to remains an autonomous group or,
called them a nation if you like, inside Iran. The language and religion are
the biggest fences against the Baluch assimilation into Persian culture.
It is necessary for Iran to find a way that would weaken the
capacity of Baluch to challenge Iran, I believe the Iranian have succeeded to
reduce the Baluch competitive power to extent they cannot challenge dominated
groups domestically or internationally. The Iranian has cultivated their seed
among the Baluch to very dangerous level to the points a Baluch became a spoke person
for outsider against its own interest.
The state is
undermining the Baluch domestic institution basis on which Baluch had
historically sustained themselves as cohesive community and organized themselves
to contest for state power.
I believe the Baluch religious institution has been hijacked
by outside forces to some point have been used if not against Baluch but more
in favour of Shiite state.
The Baluch religion
institution alone can stand against Shiite sect of Islam as long as they are
supported by their co-religious outside the state, once their support ceased
their capacity will be reduced beyond imagination. The religion institution has voluntarily given
up the main pillar of national identity, the Language, which has brought the
Baluch one step closer to assimilation.
I do not think the non Shiite religious institutions in Iran
have capacity to turn Shiite majority state to Sunni majority because all
religions are true in their own way. It is
nationalism that demands a shell for a nation to be safe in its own territory and
protected by institutions, police, and national army from internal and external
harm.
Mehrab. Sarjov
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