Mr Ban Ki-moon

Secretary-General

United Nations                                                                         

New-York                                                                               19th February 2007    

USA

 

 

Re: Security Council’s Press Statement No. SC/8957 dated 15th February 2007

 

 

Dear Mr Ban Ki-moon,

 

We learnt that United Nations Security Council on 15th February 2007 debated and subsequently in a statement condemned the bombing on Wednesday of Revolutionary Guards of Iranian regime in Zahidan. It is astonishing to see the UN as the protector of human rights body to be drawn into an unusual and unprecedented act by taking side with the Iranian state which is renowned for its violation of humane rights.

 

Sadly the Security Council was selective in its approach towards condemning terrorism and violence, therefore did not take into consideration the plight of millions of innocent Baloch people in Balochistan who have been under relentless oppressions, discriminations and total neglect in every aspect of life (political representation, economical, security, social advancement, religion, education and cultural) by the Iranian regime since its inception. The people of Balochistan are peace-loving and law-abiding in nature, but the unbearably harsh treatment of the Iranian regime for past 28 years wore out their patience as literally no civic venue in Iran is left for them to direct their sufferings.

 

It undoubtedly would have been far plausible for the Security Council if such a hasty statement was delayed pending on a thorough investigation by a commission from the UN. In only last year alone the regime has executed over 100 people in public in Balochistan with no fair trial or observation of their trial by international bodies. These executions are even acknowledged by the Iranian regime, and well publicised in the official press in Iran. Baloch are humiliated and degraded to an extent that such violent outcomes are inevitable whether one condemn or condone them. Therefore Baloch people see themselves at war with the regime. In a war attacks on one another happens. The difference is that one has so called the legitimacy of state with powerful and destructive apparatus such as Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards), and the other has bare hands coupled with utter neglect of international community, even the UN!

 

We as a political organisation of Balochistan in exile simply ask the UN and its relevant bodies what actions have been taken or at least sought to see if Baloch peoples’ human rights are being safeguarded in Iran in the face of ongoing executions. Is there been any efforts by the UN to see whether the executed Baloch people had a fair trial? Is anyone ever been sent to Balochistan to meet with the local Baloch people and report back to the UN in New York on their treatment by the Iranian regime? Or even anyone in the UN has ever thought of Baloch peoples’ concerns? It is regrettable to say that the answer to all of the above questions is a painful no!!!

 

In the light of above questions, it is clear that the Security Council has resorted to some appeasement policy in the detriment of Baloch peoples’ human rights. In Balochistan no political party or activity is allowed. Baloch political organisations and parties are persecuted under the pretext of being anti-revolutionary and so on. We are forced to continue our civic political struggles for our rights in clandestine and outside Iran. No doubt every one desires to see development of civic society to further ones goals and rights, but in absence of any degree of freedom whether individual or collective in Balochistan, some Baloch fighters act as ‘eye for an eye’, so it would be fruitless to expect people or groups to recognise tyranny and injustices of Iranian regime, and furthermore to expect them of accepting oppression and eventual cultural genocide even at the cost of their identity and existence.

 

 

Now that the statement of Feb, 15th 2007 by the Security Council is a fact, we request you and the Security Council to reflect the concerns of oppressed people of Balochistan in future, and send a special representative for a fact-finding mission to Balochistan as a matter of urgency as it is feared that the statement of Feb, 15th 2007 by the Security Council has provided the regime with legitimacy to round-up any one and put to death innocent Baloch in summary trials. One innocent person, Mr Nasrullah SHANBEHZAI was already forced by torture to confess taking part in the bombing in a staged appearance which was broadcast on the state TV. It is reported in the media that he was summarily tried and sentenced to death by hanging within a day of his arrest!!!

His only crime is his relation to some members of the movement which claimed responsibility for the bombing. There are reliable reports that over hundred innocent Baloch have been indiscriminately arrested in Zahedan in less than two days.

 

On behalf of oppressed Baloch people Baluchistan National Movement(Zrombesh) appeals for your urgent intervention to safeguard innocent lives in Balochistan and bring the Iranian regime into accountability under the international law for violating the democratic rights of Baloch in Balochistan.

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

 

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

 

 

Baluchistan National Movement- Iran

 

CC:      Mr Peter Burian

President of The Security Council

United Nations

New-York