#NobelPeacePrizeForMahrang

 

 

To the Esteemed Members of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee,

 

 

We, the undersigned, urge the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to recognize and honor Dr. Mahrang Baloch, a fearless human rights defender and visionary leader from Balochistan for her extraordinary struggle against enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and state sponsored oppression in Balochistan region.

 

 

Dr. Mahrang Baloch has endured the brutality of state violence since her childhood. She grew up in an environment where enforced disappearances, mutilated bodies and extrajudicial killings became part of daily life. Like thousands of Baloch families, hers too became a victim of these crimes. Her father, Abdul Ghaffar Langove, was abducted by Pakistani forces and forcibly disappeared. When public protests compelled the authorities to present him in court, he was acquitted honorably only to be abducted again and later found brutally tortured and murdered, his mutilated body dumped in Gaddani, Balochistan.

 

 

Years later, her brother Nasir Baloch also fell victim to enforced disappearance. It was only through Dr. Mahrang’s relentless protests that he was finally released. These tragedies shaped her resolve and transformed her into one of the most courageous voices of resistance in Balochistan.

 

 

From her student years, Dr. Mahrang Baloch raised her voice against the systemic oppression in Balochistan. When Maliknaz, a mother from Turbat, was martyred in her home by state backed “death squads” and her young daughter Bramsh Baloch was severely injured, Dr. Mahrang organized protests that ignited a mass movement. This was the beginning of a new era of Baloch resistance led by women. She emerged as a symbol of hope, resilience and justice in a land long silenced by fear.

 

 

Dr. Mahrang stood firm, leading the formation of the Bramsh Yakjehti Committee, which later evolved into the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) a peaceful movement that continues to expose the state’s crimes and demand justice for the victims of enforced disappearances. Today, Dr. Mahrang serves as the central organizer of BYC, embodying the spirit of peace, dignity, and resistance.

 

 

In late 2023, when the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) extrajudicially killed Balach Mola Bakhsh, his family refused to bury his body and began a peaceful protest. Under Dr. Mahrang’s leadership, the BYC organized demonstrations in Turbat, later marching to Quetta, and then to Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. Despite freezing winter nights, elderly people and children joined her march for truth and justice.

 

 

The state responded with violence, water cannons, tear gas and mass arrests but Dr. Mahrang did not waver. Her courage turned the cold streets of Islamabad into the moral center of a nation’s conscience. For weeks, she and her fellow protesters sat outside the Islamabad Press Club, demanding an end to Baloch genocide and enforced disappearances. Their resilience forced international attention toward Pakistan’s war crimes in Balochistan.

 

 

When she returned to Quetta in early 2024, it was as a hero. Tens of thousands welcomed her as the voice of the voiceless, the woman who refused to bow before tyranny. Her movement against Baloch genocide grew stronger, but the state’s brutality only intensified.

 

 

Pakistani forces began retaliating after every armed resistance incident by taking previously detained and disappeared Baloch individuals from secret prisons, staging fake encounters and killing them. In one such horrific episode, 34 unidentified bodies were dumped at a hospital in Quetta and buried without identification. Dr. Mahrang held a press conference demanding that the victims be identified and returned to their families. When her demands were ignored, she led peaceful protests once again.

 

 

The state’s answer was bullets. Security forces opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, killing three protesters. After seizing their bodies, authorities arrested Dr. Mahrang and her companions under the colonial era 3MPO law, fabricating charges and repeatedly extending her detention, all in an attempt to silence her voice and suppress the growing movement for justice. But Dr. Mahrang’s voice cannot be silenced. She represents the universal struggle for human dignity, justice and peace. Her courage transcends borders, her defiance inspires women and men across the world and her nonviolent movement exposes the persistence of colonial violence in the 21st century.

 

 

We appeal to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee to award Dr. Mahrang Baloch the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her unwavering commitment to peace, justice, and the struggle against enforced disappearances and state oppression. Honoring her would not only acknowledge her personal bravery but also bring global awareness to the ongoing atrocities in Balochistan and beyond where thousands still vanish without a trace and families continue to search for their loved ones in silence.

 

 

Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Mahrang Baloch would be a powerful statement that the world still stands with truth, justice and humanity and that even in an era of darkness, the light of conscience can never be extinguished.

 

 

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