⦿ 𝐈𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧, 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥. To live as a Baloch is to be constantly monitored, constantly questioned. Movement is restricted. Identity is criminalized. At every checkpoint, the state demands to know your name, your father’s name, and to see your ID card — not for security, but as a routine exercise in humiliation and control. They raid your home at night. They break down doors, abduct sons, and return them—if at all—cold, tortured, unrecognizable. And even when they are released, a worse fate follows. ⦿ 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿. 𝗧𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗱. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱. 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗱. 𝗘𝘅𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱. Killed not just once, but over and over, in the silence of the media, and in the complicity of those who claim to care about human rights. This is not survival. This is “bare life” — a life stripped of rights, of dignity, of future. This is the condition of Balochistan today: where death is not an interruption of life, but its constant backdrop. And yet, this is not a tragedy. This is not fate. This is the design of a brutal, militarized state. This is the violence of a genocidal system. A system that sees the Baloch people not as citizens, not as human beings, but as a problem to be managed. ⦿ Just days ago, journalist Lateef Baloch was shot dead in front of his wife and children — killed by death squads everyone knows are backed by the state. In Awaran, Naeem was killed during a raid. His mother was wounded by gunfire. His aunt, Hoori, was also killed in the same operation. In Washuk, a young man named Yunus was forcibly disappeared on May 24, 2025. Five days later, his sister Mahjabeen, a polio patient, was enforcedly disappeared from the Civil Hospital Hostel in Quetta. ⦿ 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝘀: 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗹𝗮𝘄 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀? 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹, 𝗮𝗯𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹? And where is the media? Where are the academics? Where are the human rights defenders and the so-called intellectuals of Pakistan? Where are they when a Baloch journalist is killed in front of his family? When homes are raided and civilians shot inside their own houses? When women, the elderly, and disabled are abducted? Did you not know? Or did you know and look away? ⦿ You wrote essays on justice and hosted conferences on peace. You spoke of democracy while a nation was dying. You sat across from generals at panel discussions and called it dialogue. You waited until the bodies became too many to ignore, and even then you asked the wrong questions. You asked, who are these people protesting? You asked, why is Mahrang Baloch angry? You asked, what does the Baloch Yakjehti Committee want? You never asked the state why it turned Balochistan into a war zone. You never asked the army why it runs this land like a conquered colony. You never asked why a generation of Baloch youth is either in a grave or in a dungeon. ⦿ The Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) was not born out of politics. It was born out of necessity. It was born in graveyards, in protest camps, in hospitals, in villages burned to silence. It was born where journalism refused to go, where academia dared not look. It came to remind you: That resistance is not terrorism. That dignity is not a crime. That silence, too, can be a weapon—and you have used it well. BYC, and voices like Mahrang Baloch, are not the ones who must explain themselves. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻. You—the journalist who never asked the right question. You—the professor who turned genocide into theory. You—the human rights defender who learned to look away. ⦿ When the BYC stood up, it didn’t just show the face of the state—it revealed your face, too. The one hidden behind neutrality, the one that always folds when it matters most. The face that smiles at the oppressor, and interrogates the oppressed. And when the moment came to choose, between the oppressed and the oppressor: you chose power. You chose safety. You chose the comfort of not knowing. When media, academics, and so-called human rights defenders turn a blind eye or twist the truth to serve the oppressor, they become part of the machinery that dehumanizes an entire nation. If you claim to stand for human rights, then stand now — not with the oppressors, but with the oppressed. #stopbalochgenocide #releasebycleaders