Berlin: China, which has “vast experience” in exploitation and genocide against Tibetans and Uyghurs, has joined Pakistan in carrying out genocide of the people of Pakistan-occupied Balochistan, according to top Baloch leader Dr Naseem Baloch.
Naseem Baloch, Chairman of Baloch National Movement (BNM), made the comments at a conference here which was attended by Secretary General of World Sindhi Congress Dr Lakho Luhana, President of World Uyghur Congress Dolkun Isa, Kurdish political leader Mako Qocgiri.
At the conference, BNM Central Committee member Faheem Baloch gave a presentation on the situation in Balochistan, with emphasis on Enforced Disappearances being carried out by the Pakistani military and allied agencies.
Addressing the event, Dr Naseem said among the many issues the Baloch people face today under Pakistani occupation, the most compelling issue is the enforced disappearances and the kill and dump policy, including the recent fake encounters.
“In the recent sit-in protest in Shaal (Quetta) Balochistan, we saw sisters and mothers of the enforced disappeared persons with their infant children. We saw weak and ill children without shoes, their mothers holding them in one hand and holding a mic in the other hand; crying for their loved ones,” he said.
He said, “Earlier, Pakistan was alone in inflicting atrocities on us, the Baloch, the Gilgitis and Baltis, the Pashtuns and the Sindhis. But now it has got an expansionist and aggressive partner in the form of China.
“China has joined hands to carry on the Baloch Genocide. Their main purpose is to exploit the resources of Gilgit Baltistan, Sindh and Balochistan.”
He said: “China has vast experience in exploitation and genocide from Tibet to East Turkestan, from Hongkong to Taiwan, China is a country that has no respect for human rights and humanity in its own country. More than two million Uyghur Muslims suffer in their concentration camps.”
The BNM leader said the Baloch people are “indirectly fighting against China, the ally of Pakistan. We are fighting against its (Chinese) presence in Gwadar (port city in Balochistan).”
He went on to add: “Apart from the exploitation of our natural resources, the Chinese presence on the Strait of Hormuz in Gwadar Port is bound to have negative economic and military effects on this region and the world.”
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Dr. Naseem said, “Our national movement is a liberation movement from Pakistani occupation.
“We believe our liberation movement is an inspiration for the oppressed people of the entire region. Not only because we are fighting against Pakistan the centre of world terrorism but also we are fighting for the survival of cultural diversity, empowerment of nations and the rights of the oppressed ethnic minorities in the region.”
Well-known Pakistani author Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa said, “We need to broaden the definition of enforced disappearance, explore its causes and objectives and identify its various forms. What is disappeared, who is disappeared?”
She added, “I know many of you are sitting here whose loved ones are disappeared. The state tends to silence people. No state has the right to deprive the people of their land; no state has the right to deprive people of their heritage. It is fierce.
“We should come together against any form of disappearance.”
Referring to elected Member of Pakistan National Assembly Ali Wazir, she said he had got bail but could not come out and is still in jail.
“This is what I mean by a form of disappearance by silencing the voice of people. Disappearances in the Pakistani state context have a broader connotation. The more extensive definition of disappearance is the criminal silencing people and shutting down what they want for their lives and lands,” she said.
Historian Dr. Naseer Dashti said Pakistan would become bankrupt in the next two years and as soon as Pakistan becomes bankrupt, the vandalism process will accelerate, and other countries will no longer support it financially.
“The collapse of Pakistan is certain. That is for sure and no one can change,” he predicted.
Dr. Lakho Lohana, Secretary General of World Sindhi Congress, said the state of Pakistan had been looting the resources of the Sindhi, Baloch and Saraiki people.
“The recent floods can be associated with climate change, but Pakistan has made it worse by denying them the right to live. But in Sindh, people are dying of hunger and diseases; this is intentional genocide,” Lohana said.
He said the Pakistani state is responsible for the destruction of Balochistan.
“People have been forcibly disappeared, and Balochs are the most victims of forced disappearance. The Pakistani state has enforced disappear thousands of people whose whereabouts are unknown,” he said.
President of the World Uyghur Congress Dolkun Isa said talked about the problems being faced by Uyghur Muslims under the Chinese occupation in East Turkestan.
“We are Muslims, but we are not allowed to perform our religious rituals in China…We are not allowed to say “Salam” to each other and we are not allowed to keep fast. There, we cannot choose Islamic names for our children like Muhammad, Ahmed, etc. The state of China has forced people, even more than 60 years old people to change their Islamic names,” Isa said.
“Millions of children were separated from their parents to deprive them of their identity. Since 1949, millions of people have been killed by Chinese forces and women have been raped.”
He also criticized the silence of Muslim countries, saying they are being mute spectators because their economic interests are more important than humanity.
He said Pakistan and China are simultaneously making the league and usurping the natural resources of Uyghur and Baloch under the CPEC route.
On this occasion, Hasan Dost Baloch, Junior Joint Secretary of the Baloch National Movement, said that Pakistan occupied Balochistan in 1948.
Until now, millions of people have been killed and forcibly disappeared.
The trend of suicide has increased in Balochistan.
They are committing suicide because of their treatment in torture cells. There they were treated in such a way that after their release they felt they were no longer fit to live in society.
He added that many nations gained their freedom in the world through peaceful struggle, but Pakistan is an uncivilized and ruthless state that believes in demonstrations of power and suppression.
Pakistan has occupied the Baloch, Sindhi and Pashtun lands and suppressed the people.
“Our struggle is against this cruelty. After a long history of peaceful struggle Baloch nation had concluded that the parliamentary form of struggle in Pakistan was useless to gain national freedom,” Hasan Dost said.
