The Baluch are discriminated, humiliated and their sense of identity is insecure,

For so long the Persian elites inside Iran have advocated “one nation one language” and so on from the diverse ethnics and nationalities the Arab, Baluch, Kurd, Turk, Turkoman and Persian, these diverse ethnic groups are still residing on their own homeland  and they are divided by the invisible cultural, linguistic and religion boundaries.

The rise of Persian literacy has intended to assimilate the Baluch into the Persian language and culture has undermined the tribalism. But urbanisation, slum condition and competition for jobs, housing, and schools the Baluch have been subjected, reinforced the Baluch nationalism in the western occupied Baluchistan.

The Baluch do not share language, religion, culture, myth and history with the other Iranian ethnic groups. The Baluch are discriminated, humiliated and their sense of identity is insecure. The Baluch desire to be an equal in the Baluch own circle, to be protected by its own Baluch, to be reinstated to the Baluch culture. The only sure way to dignity is the restoration of an independent Baluchistan.

The detribalised elites, literacy, mass media, mass communication will reinforce the pursuit of happiness and the struggle for the Baluch national liberation within Iran and beyond.

M. Sarjov is a political activist based in London,