The state forces continue brutalities against the Baloch people in Balochistan. The armed forces of Pakistan attacked a Post-funeral reception of the relatives of the people killed during a military offensive in “Sunari Tilli Matt” area of Sui on Sunday. The family and relatives of the victims were receiving the condolences on the death of their loved ones in Sui town today when the forces attacked the ceremony and tortured the people came to offer their condolences.
The forces abducted several people including two brothers namely Ashraf Bugti s/o Pondhal Bugti and Dostain Bugti s/o Pondhal Bugti and threaten the people came to express their condolence and sympathies to the family of the victims of Sui massacre. The families and relatives of the victims were severely beaten up and the ceremony of the post-funeral reception was forcibly ended by the forces.
The so-called Islamic republic of Pakistan and its forces do not respect people’s right to remember and pray for their deceased ones. Baloch civilians attacked by the forces on Sunday in “Sunari Tilli Matt” were holding a remembrance ceremony of a deceased one when the state forces opened indiscriminate fire and killed eight & wounded twenty other, and today the relatives of those killed were on a post-funeral reception when the forces attacked, tortured and abducted the family members of the victims.
State forces claimed that those killed during military offensive in Sui operation were armed insurgents but reality is they were all innocent Baloch civilians which is now supported by the recent statement of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan where prominent Human Rights activist Asma Jahangir says that “While the HRCP was in Balochistan, seven young men were picked up from Mathh area of Dera Bugti by the FC and subsequently summarily executed. Reportedly, their mothers were callously told to take a good look at the faces of their sons, as that would be their last opportunity to do so.”
Pakistani forces are also increasing their presence in Noshki area of Balochistan. A large number of troops and military equipment are being brought in from last many days and it has become a routine for the forces to randomly pick up innocent Baloch civilians from different places, take them to their camps and torture them for hours or days. Baloch Republican Party appeals to the international community to end their prolonged silence over the genocide of the Baloch people, state atrocities, human rights abuses and war crimes perpetrated by the state forces in Balochistan.
