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Acting Joint Special Representative and Joint Chief Mediator of UNAMID Aïchatou Mindaoudou. Photo: UNAMID
11 February 2013 – The Government of Sudan and one of the main rebel factions in Darfur have signed a ceasefire agreement to move the peace process forward, the United Nations-African Union mediator announced today.
“This is a major breakthrough in the road towards a comprehensive and lasting peace accord in Darfur,” said Aïchatou Mindaoudou, who is also the Acting Joint Special Representative in the UN-AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID).
The Government, represented by State Minister and Head of the Darfur Follow-up Office, Amin Hassan Omer, signed the ceasefire with Arko Sulaiman Dahiya, Vice Chairman and Head of Delegation from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), on 10 February in Doha, Qatar.
The agreement now lays the groundwork to start negotiations on other substantive issues, such as power and wealth-sharing and return of internally displaced persons and refugees.
The negotiations for the ceasefire had begun last month in Qatar under the parameters set in the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD). The DDPD forms the basis for a permanent ceasefire and comprehensive peace agreement to end the fighting that began in Darfur ten years ago, pitting government forces and allied militiamen against rebel groups.
JEM is the second rebel group to commit to the DDPD, after the Liberation and Justice Movement (LJM) signed it last year.
Following the signing, Ms. Mindaoudou congratulated both parties and said she hoped that the agreement would attract the non-signatory movements to join in the peace process.
“The road to peace is challenging and needs a great deal of resolve, perseverance and concessions from both sides,” said Ms. Mindaoudou, reiterating her commitment to continue to work with the parties to the conflict towards achieving a comprehensive peace in Darfur.
At 9th of February Baloch students and activists organized a demonstration in front of parliament house Melbourne Australia at Spring Street. The participants of the protest were carrying placards demanding to stop military operations in Balochistan they urge that UN should intervene in Balochistan, the participants of the demonstration also carried the photo of the victims of the torture, kill and dump.
hmer Rehman a student activist from Balochistan while addressing to the participants. He said, that we all know the land of Baloch; Balochistan is been occupied by Pakistan and Iran. Today I would like to focus on the Pakistani occupied Balochistan. In Pakistani occupied Balochistan the Baloch people are living a life at the gunpoint in the shadows of inhuman atrocities. Their physical survival is at stake with the systematic and organized genocide being carried out by the security agencies of Pakistan. The Baloch struggle is the response to cultural domination, economical exploitation, Political subjugation and occupation of the Baloch land by the Pakistan.
He said, In the last five years Pakistani military and intelligence agencies abducted thousands of Baloch political activists including Doctors, Lawyers, Students, Teachers, Journalists and Baloch intellectuals. Recently the organization named voice for the Baloch missing persons documented that, more then fourteen thousand Baloch are missing and they are in the custody of the Pakistani intelligence agencies. And more then seven hundred torture mutilated dead bodies of the Baloch missing persons were dumped across the roadsides and mountains in the Balochistan and in the different cities of the Pakistan.
Mr Rehman further said, in the beginning of 2013 the Pakistani military conducted deadly military operations and bombarded on civilian population in the Mashkay region of the Awaran, Balochistan. Which resulted in several casualties many of women and children were injured and killed.
Recently in last three days Pakistani sieged the village of Mangochar, Kalat district Balochistan. In this fresh operation many Baloch were killed and many of them were abducted by Pakistani military and their intelligence agencies.
Keeping all these atrocities and barbarism, I would also like to record my protest against the silence of international media. It is shameful that international media is not highlighting the state atrocities and the gross human rights violations, which are, carried out by Pakistani military and their intelligence agencies against the Baloch nation. We request the free media of the world to please take notice of these Pakistani crimes and highlight them.
At last he said, on the behalf of oppressed Baloch nation, I appeal from the Australian government to take notice of these atrocities of Pakistan and discuss Balochistan’ human rights situation in the international forums such as united nation. And I also appeal to the other civilized and democratic countries of the world to take an immediate action to pressurize the Pakistani government to stop the Baloch genocide and ongoing military operations across the Balochistan.
Following a recent rally organized by the Baloch National Front (BNF), an alliance of the Baloch Student Organisation-Azad (BSO-Azad) and the Baloch National Movement (BNM) in Turbat (see below), the BNF led a massive protest rally to the Karachi Press Club on February 10, 2013, to decry the silence of the international and Pakistani media, the UN and human rights organizations over military atrocities in Balochistan. Story to come...
BSO Azad against Baloch genocide Protest in Turbat, Balochistan, February 2013
Kech: A rally held by the Baloch Student Organisation-Azad and the Baloch National Movement (BNM) is said to be the largest in Turbat's history. The city echoed with “Free Balochistan” slogans.
Thousands of Baloch women, children and elderly took part in a rally on Saturday against Pakistani military operations in Balochistan, kill and dump practices and the ‘criminal silence of the international media’ over gross human rights violations in Balochistan, as well as the silence of the UN and other international human rights organisations regarding the Baloch genocide.
he rally,Baloch Student Organisation -Azad and the Baloch National Movement (BNM), is said to be the largest in Turbat’s history. The city echoed with “Free Balochistan” slogans. housands of Baloch women, children and elderly took part in a rally, on Saturday, against the military operations, kill and dump and ‘criminal silence of International media’ on gross human rights violations in Balochistan and the silence of UN and other international human rights organisations on Baloch Genocide.
Kareema Baloch, the vice chairperson of the BSO-Azad, led the parade from Degree College Turbat to Fida Shaheed square, where a sit-in was staged. The rally then headed towards Boys College where it took a shape of huge demonstration. The rally participants chanted the slogans in support of free Balochistan and Baloch freedom loving forces. The participants were waving flags of Balochistan and their respective parties.
The participants of rally strongly criticized the international media for their criminal silence on ‘Baloch Genocide’ by Pakistan. A Baloch woman held a placard which read: “BBC and VOA STOP IGNORING BALOCH GENOCIDE,” They also condemned UN for its coldness about Balochistan situation.
Several hundred Baloch from Mand, Balecha, Dasht, Turbat, Shapok, Hoshaap, Keesak and other areas of Balochistan participated in the rally which was headed by vie chairperson of BSO-Azad, Kareema Baloch. Speaking to the participants of the rally, Kareema Baloch said: “The Baloch nation is resisting for a free state from past many decades. Thousands of Baloch have already laid their lives whereas thousands are still suffering in torture cells. Despite all these atrocities the international media has criminally remained silent. UN, which has taken notice of human rights violations against Congo, Palestine, and Kosovo, is also ignoring the Baloch genocide by Pakistan and Iran.”
She further said that Pakistan and the so-called Pro-Pakistan Baloch nationalists are planning to start a massive military offensive in Balochistan to pave the ground for upcoming Pakistani elections. The operations in Mashkay, Gebun, Mastung and Mangochar, she said, were also carried out please these pro-Pakistan Baloch parties.
“The Baloch nation should boycott the ‘traitors’ and Pakistani electoral process, because these elections are to strengthen and legitimise the occupation of Balochistan,” said Kareema Baloch.
She added that the state of Pakistan failed to defeat the Baloch struggle by arming the drug dealers and other convicted criminal, and now it was using the likes of Malik, Hasil Bizenjo and Sardar Akhtar Mengal against the Baloch national struggle. “These attempts of the state will also fail and the drawn of freedom is inevitable in Balochistan,” Ms Baloch said.
She alleged BNP-Mengal, National Party and BNP-Awami were hands in gloves with Pakistan and were equally responsible for Baloch genocide. She requested the Baloch nation to hold these traitors accountable for their deeds.
Miss Mahdem Baloch, Qandeel Baloch and Ruzhn Baloch also addressed the procession and urging the international media to break their silence on Baloch genocide.
Hundreds of activists of Baloch Students Organisation (Azad), including women and children, on Saturday took out a rally and staged a demonstration in Turbat city to protest the alleged military operation in Balochistan and recovery of bullet-riddled bodies of missing persons.
Participants of the rally, holding placards and banners inscribed with different demands, marched through streets of the city. The rally culminated into a demonstration at Fida Shaheed Chowk.
The protesters shouted slogans against “Frontier Corps’ (FC) targeted operations” and recovery of bullet-riddled bodies.
Speaking on the occasion, BSO-Azad Vice Chairperson Banuk Karima Baloch and others condemned the “targeted operations of FC” and alleged that innocent Baloch were being targeted and their bullet-riddled bodies were being thrown away.
They said the Baloch leaders who were part of Aslam Raisani’s government were equally responsible for the murder of innocent Baloch.
They said that “more than 500 innocent Baloch people have been brutally killed and their bodies were thrown away”. “We are demand our rights through the UN charter,” they said, adding that the UN should take notice of “excesses” of security forces towards the Baloch.
They also criticised Baloch nationalist parties, including National Party and Balochistan National Party (Mengal), for their preparations for the upcoming elections.
The protesters also criticised the media for not highlighting the alleged brutalities of security forces in Balochistan and termed this practice against the rules and ethics of journalism. They vowed to continue their struggle until their demands are met.
This conference comes as Hamid Karzai, Asif Ali Zardari and David Cameron urge the Taliban to join the reconciliation process in Afghanistan, Malala Yousafzai vows to continue her campaign and mass funerals are held on a daily basis in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In light of the increasingly alarming situation in the region, the conference aims to provide a better understanding of the geopolitical complexities that shape the lives of the people of South Asia
The region of Balochistan, which is Pakistan’s largest province, but also covers parts of Afghanistan and Iran, will be given special attention at the conference. The recent bombings in Quetta only highlighted some of the complex aspects the region is characterized by. The secular Baloch people are suffering from severe pressure, as well as neglect, from Islamabad, with enforced disappearances, summary executions, economic exploitation, militarization, political disempowerment, talibanization and nuclear testing disrupting society and suppressing any Baloch claims for self-determination.
To address these important global and regional security challenges, international experts, community representatives, academics and high-ranking politicians will come together to share their insights and expertise concerning the future of Balochistan and South Asia. Courtesy: UNPO
