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Activists ask UN to break silence on genocide of Baloch
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Activists ask UN to break silence on genocide of Baloch
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New Delhi/Geneva, March 12 (TIWN) In a strong indictment of the United Nations for its apathy towards Baloch people, human rights activists have set up a pavilion right outside the United Nations office in Geneva, highlighting their genocide committed by the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) activists told IANS that they have set up a pavilion named 'Save the Baloch' outside the UN Office of Geneva adjacent to the iconic broken chair. "The UN has failed its own mandate to protect and fight for human rights across the globe. Silence from the UN on Baloch people is essentially an endorsement of their cultural extermination of genocidal proportions," protesters outside the UN office said.  The campaign launched by BHRC, protesters said, "is a push to garner greater international awareness for the near-extermination of the people of Balochistan." 

Pakistan occupied Balochistan in 1948 and after the country became an Islamic Republic, imposed religious laws and culture which have been alien to the ethnic Baloch. "This was a flagrant intrusion into the Baloch way of life and a blatant denial of the secular and democratic principles to which the Baloch cling. Since the Pakistani government invaded the region, the people of Balochistan have suffered under constant oppression and terror," activists said. 

While speaking at the pavilion, activists pointed out that death squads kidnap social and political activists and human rights defenders, who are then murdered and thrown into mass graves. Several mass graves have been discovered across Balochistan, activists said, adding that military oppression is the key tactic Pakistan has employed in order to sustain its unjust rule over the Baloch.

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