Baloch rights activists have organized a poster campaign in Geneva to highlight Pakistan's 'egregious infractions' in Balochistan where enforced disappearances and killings have assumed 'epidemic proportions'. Significantly, 'Stop Baloch Gecide poster campaign, organized by Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC) at Broken Chair monument area and coincides with 42nd session of United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

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Baloch activists protest at Broken Chair monument

Broken Chair is a monumental sculpture me in wood by Swiss artist Daniel Berset. Several protests and demonstrations in Geneva are organized in this area.

"Balochistan is most deprived region within Pakistan. China-Pakistan Ecomic Corridor (CPEC) - a project allegedly aimed at improving lives of people of Pakistan and China - has only exacerbated deprivation and given Pakistan an excuse to abuse and profit from abundant resources available on Baloch lands," a BHRC release said.

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What has been officially lauded as an effort to promote bilateral connectivity, investment, and tre initiatives has actually functioned as state-sanctioned "cultural extermination", it said. poster campaign that began on Friday comes at a time when Pakistan and India are engd in a war of words on Kashmir after India abrogated Article 370 provisions. Indian side has hit out at Pakistan for committing rights violations against ethnic and religious mirities. BHRC seeks to raise vital awareness about Pakistan's "egregious infractions" with poster campaign and highlight country's "ever-worsening exploitation" of region. poster campaign asserts that "enforced disappearances and killings have assumed epidemic proportions".

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"Vills have been slashed and burned by Pakistani Army to make room for settlement of Chinese colonies. Those Baloch whose homes have been destroyed are forced to resettle in abject conditions near Pakistani Army camps, where y suffer under incessant, hostile surveillance," BHRC said.

Pakistan's atrocities in Balochistan

posters also draw attention to fact that more than a dozen mass graves have been discovered on outskirts of "occupied Balochistan", where year after year Pakistani security forces have "murdered and n haphazardly dumped hundreds if t thousands of Baloch people", Baloch rights body said. poster campaign calls for global action against Pakistan's "terrorization of Balochistan". "A whopping 80 percent of Pakistan's mineral requirements are fulfilled by Balochistan, and Pakistan's second-largest energy source originates re. Yet, Pakistani government has plundered resources of Balochistan and restricted most basic human rights of people living re," statement said. posters in campaign also highlights that half of Balochistan has access to clean drinking water, Baloch women and children are routinely abducted, harassed, and tortured by Pakistani security forces, and out of every 100 children in Balochistan, 63 are t in school, rights body said.

"Almost 57 per cent of people live below poverty line, are unable to even purchase food for ir children. Because of this, five in ten children are malurished in Balochistan," BHRC said.

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activists behind campaign believe only way to secure justice and peace for people of Balochistan is for UN and or relevant international parties to immediately put heavy pressure on Pakistan and level appropriate sanctions against it. "Without that pressure, UN and rest of global community signal to people of Balochistan that securing ir freedom and fundamental human rights is simply t a priority," Baloch rights body said.