Bangladesh witnesses protest rally over Baloch activist assassination

Bangladesh Muktijuddha Mancha (war fighters forum) held a human chain and protest rally at the foot of Raju sculpture adjacent to TSC of Dhaka University on Sunday in protest against the planned killing of Karima Baloch, a Pakistani woman human rights activist in exile in Canada and solidarity with Balochistan's freedom struggle

Bangladesh Muktiyuddha Mancha, Central Committee General Secretary Md. Al Mamun presided over the human chain and protest rally. Bangladesh Muktiyuddha Mancha, Central Committee President Aminul Islam Bulbul presided over the rally. Former Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik, sculptor Rasha, poet Sardar Farooq, Dhaka University branch president Sonnet Mahmud, Dhaka Metropolitan North branch president Milon Dhali, general secretary Deen Islam Bappi and other leaders also spoke.

Former Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik said at the protest rally, "The killing of Karima Baloch, a female human rights activist in exile in Canada, has proved that the Pakistani government is a sponsor of terrorism and militancy. The Muslim genocide in Balochistan must be stopped. I demand exemplary punishment for those involved in the Baloch killings. "


Bangladesh Muktijuddha Mancha, General Secretary of the Central Committee Md. Al Mamun said, "Bangladesh Muktiyuddha Mancha is working for the rights and freedom of the families of the heroic freedom fighters as well as for the establishment of basic and human rights of every human being in the world."

"The ISI has carried out a well-planned assassination. The Bangladesh Liberation War Mancha strongly condemns and protests against the killing. We also express solidarity with the freedom struggle of the Balochistan Muslims. The movement for independence of the people of Balochistan is very logical. Pakistan has presented itself as a sponsor of terrorism and militancy in the recent assassination of exiled female human rights activist Karima Baloch in Canada, an international crime against Pakistan for the genocide of Muslim massacre in Balochistan and the murder of human rights activist Karima Baloch. Bangladesh Muktiyuddha Mancha is demanding strict action from the court.”

“The Bengali world probably knows best how brutal, how brutal, how inhuman and ruthless the torture of the Pakistani army can be. We have seen it from August 1947 to the last day of their reign in 1971. The Bengali nation has also given its appropriate response to the 23-year-old ruling class in a systematic manner demanding thousands of Bengali youths without any discrimination as a result of intense mass movement in various demands of public life, freedom of speech and individual, freedom of expression, establishment of national right to self-determination. They have been incarcerated indefinitely - many of their families have been forced to starve to death, ruining their families financially, one newspaper after another has been shut down for independent expression, and their printing presses have been confiscated.”

Mamun recalled, “Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the greatest Bengali nation of all time, was long persecuted by the Pakistani government. 3 million were martyred by the Pakistani forces and 2 lakh mothers and sisters lost their dignity. Bangladesh Muktiyuddha Mancha's demand to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh is to immediately express sympathy by building international public opinion on the killing of exiled female human rights activist Karima Baloch in Canada, stopping the Muslim genocide in Balochistan and demanding justice. Otherwise, Bangladesh Muktijuddha Mancha will soon announce a tougher program. "


Sculptor Rasha said, "After the language movement in 1948 (the only movement to establish a proper status for the mother tongue), hundreds of students and youth activists were imprisoned without trial. The horrific massacre, rape, abduction and looting of women by the Pakistani military and their Bangladeshi ally Razakar Albader Alshams during the nine-month armed liberation war of 1971 is an unprecedented incident in history. The hands of the Pakistani government and army are bloodied, their minds and behavior are cruel. I knew then that they considered the Bengalis as their only enemy. Today we know - no, not at all. All the small ethnic groups in Pakistan are treated the same by the Punjabi rulers...The people of Balochistan are highly politically conscious, progressive and secular. They also supported our liberation war in many ways. Balochistan was in favor of our liberation war - so the torture of the Pakistani military is much more on them.”

He supported the liberation war of Sindh and Pakhtunistan and Bangladesh then Pakhtunistan in Balochistan and border provinces.

“A small number of people in Balochistan have been incited, trained and armed by Pakistan's notorious intelligence agency, the ISI, and mobilized against all progressive forces there. Farzana Majid and Mama Qadir led a long march from Quetta to the UN office in Islamabad. Their demand is to raise the demand in the eyes of the United Nations to force the Pakistani government to rescue the missing Baloch. Faizana's brother himself has been missing for several years, and at least 20,000 more Baluchis have been subjected to the same torture. They are also missing. Of these, 6,000 Baloch were later brutally killed and their bodies were buried by helicopter. Mass graves have been excavated. Even after the Supreme Court of Pakistan commented on the matter, it was learned that even though the judges referred to the incident as "compulsory disappearance or abduction", the government did not take any action to rescue them. Their long march was for justice, freedom and rescue of their loved ones and the families of those who went missing were the organizers of the long march. Literally thousands of Baloch political leaders, human rights activists, Baloch civilians and the general public are being targeted by security personnel, militants and jihadists who are residents of Pakistan-occupied Balochistan. This kind of abduction has been going on in Balochistan since 1947 when the ruling group brutally occupied Balochistan, " Rasha said.

Poet Sardar Farooq said, "Religious extremist Pakistani army and terrorists have been jointly carrying out brutal torture to suppress the freedom movement of the Baloch people. They have been given lines when there is no obstacle to kill, kill, kill or rape any Baloch."

“...The list of those tortured and rescued is too long, and Pakistan's plans for the Balochistan genocide are being published day by day, and allegations of genocide there have now surfaced in the country's media... It was not allowed to be published in the Pakistani media. Even the Pakistani intellectuals who have expressed sympathy for the protesters have not been spared. Torture has reached its worst level today. "

Farooq claimed Tyagi bullet-riddled bodies of about 1,000 people have been recovered from Balochistan in the last six years. Of these, 51% are Baloch and 22% are Pakhtuns. More than 940 bodies have been recovered from different parts of Balochistan. Since 2010, 347 bodies have been recovered from several districts - 112 missing, he added.