According to details today, the armed forces of Pakistan launched a fresh major offensive in Sui areas. Dozens of vehicles of the forces laid a siege to Sonari Tilli Matt and surrounding areas and started to indiscriminately attack the innocent civilian populace.
The Baloch Republican Party alleged in a statement that the forces violently entered the houses and violated the sanctity of the households, harassed and tortured the residents including women and children. They also looted the valuables from houses including cash, jewellery and livestock, and subsequently destroyed them by setting fire on them or blowing them up with explosives.
The worst of all happened when the forces attacked a ceremony which was being held in memory of a deceased person near “Sonari Tilli Matt”. The forces have reportedly opened indiscriminate fire on the gathering and killed at least eight innocents and wounded around twenty others.
Many among injured are in critical condition and it is feared that the number of killed in the firing will increase because the military is not allowing medical teams access to the area. The eight civilians killed today were identified as Shaban s/o Dallu, Dost Mohammad s/o Shaban, Murad s/o Dallu, Taaro s/o Jamal Khan, Angali s/o Kher Mohammad and Yousaf s/o Shehan. “All the victims belong to Bugti Baloch tribe and seven of them are from same family,” the BRP in its statement.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani media reported that the military has killed at least six militants during an operation but the BRP refuted the claimed of Pakistani media saying that they were misreporting the incident. The BRP says all the killed were innocent and unarmed civilians.
“We international community, human rights groups and the international media to send their fact-finding missions to investigate report and expose the gross Human Rights violations, atrocities and war crimes perpetrated by the Pakistani forces in Balochistan. The international media that raises voice for even smallest issues must also report the massacre of innocent Baloch and expose the real ugly face of Pakistani forces,” BRP said in its press release on Sunday.
It further said that Pakistan was still being run by the military and claims of Pakistani politicians that there is an elected government have no credibility, adding that the state was not interested in resolving the Baloch problem in fact it was working on a policy of ‘No Baloch No problem.’
The Baloch Republican urged the international institutions such as United Nations and European Union to declare Balochistan an occupied territory and send their teams to investigate the war crimes of Pakistani forces.
