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Posted by Ngonga Ivan on 11/17/2008 @ 12:23PM PST

Protest against Islamic Bomb

WASHINGTON DC: Peace
acitivists from occupied
Baluchistan will join hands with their
U.S.counterparts to mark the 10th anniversary of
Pakistan testing its deadly Islamic Bomb in occupied
Baluchistan on May 28.

The event will be held outside the Pakistan embassy in
Washington DC, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The exact address
is 3517 International Ct. NW Washington DC. The metro
station is Van Ness on the red line.

Baluchistan, a Texas-size stateless region, is divided
among Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan and a bloody army
operation continues there despite installing of a
civilian regime in Pakistan. Pakistan's coup leader
Gen. (R) Pervez Musharraf is still the president of
the artificial state created by the British in 1947.

Musharraf, like other army generals, is directly
responsible for the Baluch genocide.

Baluchistan was annexed by Pakistan in March 1948 and
a move is afoot to knock the doors of the
International Court of Justice.

Last week three Baluch tribesmen were burnt alive in
Pakistani-occupied Baluchistan. Several thousand
people have been killed since the start of a bloody
insurgency in 2005, which the Baluch call the Fifth
War of Liberation against Pakistani occupation of
their homeland since March 1948.

The Baluch have risen in arms against the occupation
of their country by Pakistan in 1948, 1958 and 1962
and 1973-77. The latest uprising started in 2005 and
the dead include former governor and chief minister of
Baluchistan, Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, and member of the
provincial assembly Mir Bala'ach Marri. More than 7000
people were jailed and tortured in Pakistan's
gestapo-style prisons. The jailed victims included
former chief minister of Baluchistan, Sardar Akhtar
Mengal.

Though all nuclear weapons are equally condemnable,
Pakistan's weapons of mass destruction is even more
dangerous as it is religion-specific. As part of its
state ideology, Pakistan considers people from other
religions as its enemies and has made clear it
will not desist from being the first to use nuclear
weapons.


Islamic fundamentalists took to the streets of
Pakistan when the nuclear weapons were tested in
Chagai 10 years ago. They had missile replicas mounted
on trucks with "U.S., Israel and India" inscribed on
them

A number of U.S.-based Baluch human rights activists
will participate in the protest rally in DC.

American guitarists will sing peace songs, while U.S.
poets will recite poems. Speeches by Baluch and Sindhi
activists will deal with the situation faced by the
people of Baluchistan and Sindh.

Similar protests are planned in Pakistan and other
Western capitals, including Toronto and Oslo.

The event in DC has been organized by the Baloch
Society of North America and the American
Friends of Baluchistan.

For more info, ccntact 301-957-0008.

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