HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST BALUCHISTAN COMMITTED BY PAKISTAN
Extrajudicial Killings
Systematic killing of Baluch students, activists, poets, journalists, and elders.
Bodies dumped on roadsides with signs of torture, broken bones, acid burns, and missing organs.
Frontier Corps and ISI run death squads targeting entire villages.
Enforced Disappearances
Thousands of Baluch civilians abducted from homes, markets, checkpoints, and universities.
Families wait for years with no information.
Young Baluch men taken for forced interrogations, never returned alive.
The “Kill and Dump” policy directly linked to Pakistani military cantonments.
Mass Graves
Dozens of mass graves discovered in Khuzdar, Tutak, Mashkai, Awaran, Panjgur, and Dera Bugti.
Many bodies burned beyond recognition.
Pakistani military blocks access for investigation.
Collective Punishment of Villages
Entire regions placed under military siege.
Homes burned.
Villagers forced out at gunpoint.
Food, medicine, and water cut off.
Airstrikes and Bombardments
Fighter jets bomb mountain villages where civilians, shepherds, and families live.
Helicopter gunships firing on unarmed populations in Kech, Awaran, Gwadar, Dera Bugti, and Kohlu.
Artillery shelling on civilian homes.
Use of Torture
Electric shocks, water torture, beatings, and humiliation used in military camps.
ISI interrogation centers in Quetta are known torture chambers.
Forced confessions used for propaganda videos.
Economic Exploitation
Reko Diq gold.
Saindak copper and gold.
Oil, gas, fisheries, and coastal resources seized.
Locals left in starvation and poverty.
Cultural Genocide
Baluchi language erased from education.
Books banned.
Writers arrested.
Cultural events raided.
Islamabad pushes forced assimilation.
Targeting of Women
Women harassed at checkpoints, abducted, and assaulted.
Pregnant women denied medical access during military sieges.
Women activists intimidated and threatened.
Use of Religious Extremism
Pakistan sponsors extremist groups to attack Baluch intellectuals.
Radical proxies are placed in Baluchistan to alter demographics.
Extremists used as a weapon against secular Baluch resistance.
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST BALUCHISTAN COMMITTED BY IRAN
Extrajudicial Executions
Iran executes Baluch youth at one of the highest rates in the world.
Public hangings in Zahedan, Saravan, Khash, and Iranshahr.
Many executions carried out secretly without trial.
Shoot to Kill Policy
Iranian border forces routinely shoot Baluch fuel carriers and traders.
Dozens killed every year at the Sistan Baluchistan border.
Families denied bodies of their loved ones.
Mass Arrests
Large scale arrests after Friday prayers in Zahedan.
Religious and cultural leaders detained.
Children as young as twelve arrested under false charges.
Torture in Detention
Solitary confinement for months.
Electric shocks.
Beatings, starvation, and psychological torture.
Forced televised confessions.
Cultural Suppression
Baluchi language banned from schools.
Baluch literature censored.
Baluch poetry and cultural gatherings monitored and broken up.
Traditional clothing and heritage mocked by state media.
Economic Marginalization
Province deliberately kept poor.
No investment in water, electricity, hospitals, or infrastructure.
Baluch regions treated as resource colonies.
Unemployment rates among the highest in Iran.
Religious Persecution
Sunni Baluch targeted by the Shia clerical regime.
Mosques shut down.
Clerics arrested or executed.
Worshippers gunned down during protests.
Killings of Protesters
Zahedan’s “Bloody Friday” where Iranian forces killed more than ninety Baluch worshippers.
Snipers used on rooftops.
Shootings of peaceful demonstrators.
Targeting of Women
Baluch women face double discrimination as Baluch and as Sunni.
Activists targeted by morality police.
Women subject to violent crackdowns during protests.
Denial of Identity
Iran denies the existence of the Baluch nation.
Baluch history rewritten or erased.
Baluch portrayed as criminals by state media to justify oppression.