Appeal for international help to stop executions in
For the attention
of:
Amnesty
International, Human Rights Watch, United Nations Commissions for Human Rights and the European Parliament
and international community.
The Iranian
regime has executed 30 and dismembered 5 Baluch
people in seven days in
On 27th December
of 2007, while the people in the West were enjoying Christmas holidays, the
Iranian security forces summoned 17 families to go and collect their hanged
members. Seventeen young Baluch had been hanged
that early morning. The government did not allow the publication of the
hanging to be reflected in any media. This was not the first time that a
large number of people were executed in one day. This has been the official
policy of the Iranian regime to engage in a systematic oppression of Baluch people since its emergence 30 years ago.
On the first day
of the New Year two Baluch men were executed in a
prison in the Zahedan, provincial capital of
Balochistan, the official news agency IRNA said .
Also on the first
day of the New Year, 13 Iranians were hanged according to Associated Press
which was reflected in other media. The Baluch
human rights activists claimed that more than half of them were Baluch.
On the second day
of the New Year two Baluch men were hanged and two
other were shot dead, acourding to Isna.
On the third day of the New Year, two Baluch
teenagers were shot dead in Zahedan while they were
carrying water. These young men had gone to buy water for a wedding
ceremony. Zahedan which is the capital of
The news of the
executions and hangings of Baloch people do not get
properly reflected in the National media of Iran as ordered by the government
while the international community is unaware of the events the Iranian regime
is freely continuing its policy of mass executions and hangings of Baloch people quietly in different cities of Iran. The Iranian news agencies usually
give a few lines about the executions of traffickers and rebels what western
media like to reflect with reference to the Iranian controlled media. The
Iranian people know that the Iranian regime executes its political opponents
after defining them as rebels, terrorists
and drug traffickers.
Mohammad Reza Sarawani, deputy of Social Affairs of Baluchistan province
announced that 76 percent of the Baluch people live
under the poverty line, The official news agency of Shana reported on 31
December 07. The official average figure for people who are living under poverty line in
We seek to draw
the attention of international community, human rights organizations, United
Nations, political activists and leaders, journalists and investigators and
other people of the world to the plight of the Baluch
people in
We would like to
invite all human rights organizations to go inside
The Iranian regime
will continue its mass executions and poverty creation policies in
Your efforts can
make a great difference for the people of
Do what you can do
to help the Baluch people who cannot help themselves
at this moment in history.
Balochistan Mobarizeen Movement