Is Baloch struggle for
freedom a lost cause?
The execution of two Baloch religious leaders, molana Abdul Qodous mollazahi and Molana Mohammad Yousef Sohrabi in
This new rank and file class is Baloch
Sunni religious leaders who have discovered a comfortable life, power and masses
control after the Islamic
The Baloch and Sunni religious leaders justify their cooperation with Islamic
Republic of Iran ruling Mullahs by the Sunni religious principal that they
would have to obey the current and ruling government of Islamic republic ruling
Shiite or any ruling government and this is a well known fact about Sunni
religion.
The Baloch Sunni religious leaders will not risk their
government created job, a government meager financial aid and political position
to go against the Iranian government policies even at the price of converting
all Sunni Baloch to Shiite.
Therefore even
execution of Sunni religious leaders is guaranteed not to generate any
objection, let alone backlash and street riots. The Baloch Diaspora abroad did
not have an effective reaction due to secular nature of Baloch Diaspora. The
execution of two Baloch religious leaders received little attention from
Iranian Baloch opposition abroad and Baloch leaders in
Iranian government’s heinous act of executing two
innocent Baloch religious leaders exposed western Balochistan political movement’s
inherent weakness.
The weakness in Iranian Baloch political movement is in
how they perceive democracy as well as the role of Baloch religious leaders.
In the early days of Iranian revolution, the Baloch
religious leaders were influenced by Islamic republic
propaganda against Baloch youth and the Afghan mojahedin
battle against
And atheist and did not support the Baloch struggle for
autonomy to the point that in the attack on Balochistan University for closer
in Zahedan in 1358-1359 (Iranian calendar), late molana Abdul-Malek Mollazadeh and his body guards were among the attackers on
university students but later he and other Baloch religious leaders face the
wrath of Shiite mullahs and lost
Their lives and lost the trust of now Baloch mature
politician who were the activist youth in early years of
As a result any Baloch religious movement and or any movement
lead by a religious person will find itself alone and without the support of
Baloch opposition abroad since Baloch opposition abroad make up the bulk of
Baloch political activists.
The other weakness in western Balochistan political
movements is that there is no credible source for news organizations to go to
verify the events that happening on the ground in
To media and the western media formalities
that requires the contact name and telephone number for verification.
The perception about democracy has taken an ultra wide
dimension among the Baloch abroad especially for some Baloch
Who own websites.
The website owners think publishing everything that any
one anonymously post is democracy and not publishing anonymous opinions, news
and information is undemocratic, and this makes them oblivion to the fact that
they are promoting anarchism rather than democracy.
Most of the information that are posted on some of the western
Balochistan political website is deemed unreliable to a high degree, due to
lack of strict editorial policies and perceived unprofessionalism, that is why
news organizations don’t use the information from western Balochistan political
parties, for the fear of jeopardizing their own credibility and yet we accuse
them of being biased toward Baloch.
Take for instance the case of explosion in Shiraz, the harkat Jehad Ahle
Sunnat iran(Sunni holly war
movement of Iran) claimed responsibility for the explosion in Shiraz and Before
that or at the same time another group or person on Pahra
Weblog claimed responsibility and threaten retaliation against Iranian
government and the claims for responsibility were made without a press release,
contact information to verify the credibility of claim and how to contact them.
The People resistance movement of Iran (former Jondollah)
also threatened retaliation after the execution of the two Baloch religious leaders;
the threats and bluffs are a sign of immaturity and inactivity on the part of
parties who makes them hitherto are not taken serious.
Some of the western Balochistan political movements
appear to believe that the war against the dictators and tyrant governments are
won by bluff and not action. They are discrediting themselves with these
threats and bluffs since none of the threats and bluff have been followed
through with actions except on occasions Jondollah
has followed through, in addition to that, bluff and threats are also perceived
unprofessional in political world and not taken seriously and the movement is
ignored in its entirety.
To add to the agony of the Western Baloch, Mr. Reza Hossain Bor took all these
threats and bluffs to a higher degree and publish them as credible while non of
bluff and threats have materialized. Although Mr. Reza Hossain
Bor may have some good points in his analysis of Iran
and Balochistan but he is discrediting himself by taking all these threats and
bluff and unsubstantiated claims serious.
To every politician dismay, some western Balochistan
political activist created a weblog instead of website where the owner of the
weblog domain throws in commercial advertisements to make it appear a
commercial business that works for commission to promote goods and services instead
of a political party website and made it the subject of ridicule by Mr.
Mohammad Amini last fall(Autumn) further devaluing
the class of the western Balochistan political movements.
The hope is that our western Balochistan political
movements get their acts together and create an environment of trust
To make them trust worthy to the media and public and the
hope is that the Baloch weblog owners and website owners
For their own good will create better and strict
editorial policies to have control over a runaway situation.
Payam Omid
contact: payamomidvar@yahoo.com
April, 2008