Update: The Balochistan Project

The January post for this blog was about "The Balochistan Project" (see below).  The Balochistan Project is an NGO that was built from the Thailand government's suppression of our peaceful conference in November 2016.  The Balochistan Project is an amalgam of activists and academics, committed to informing people about the Baloch people, Balochistan, and the challenges they face, particularly from the occupying powers of Pakistan and Iran; leading to justice for the Baloch.

Recently, we incorporated as a not-for-profit in the United States and have been granted official 501(c)3 status by the United States government.  That means we are a tax free body and can put all of our funds to work furthering the stated aims of our NGO.  Our job is to gather, validate, and disseminate information about the Baloch and Balochistan.  Many Baloch leaders already support that effort.

We have put up a web site, www.balochistanproject.com, where readers can choose among Balochi, Urdu, Farsi, and English.  Soon we expect to set up a mechanism for donations that will allow others to support this great effort to bring justice to the Baloch.

Dr. Richard L. Benkin
President, The Balochistan Project

The Balochistan Project

One of the things that came out of the Thailand government's anti-democratic actions against our peaceful meeting (see December 9 blogpost); was a decision for us to create an NGO that would be the repository of validated information about human rights atrocities against the Baloch by the occupying powers.  "The Balochistan Project" will be a sharpened sword pointed against those who continue to commit these atrocities and suppress Baloch nationality--which existed before their own.

Next month, The Balochistan Project will convene its inaugural gathering in London.  Many of the principles who will attend have been working on our answer to Pakistani and Iranian oppression since the incident they supported in Thailand.  Thus, their anti-democratic actions in fact are having precisely the opposite impact that they intended.

The Balochistan Project is committed to truth and justice; that is, we have developed methods to verify the numerous reports already coming to us; such that we will provide world leaders with information that we know will stand up against by denials by Pakistan, Iran, and their enablers.

Principles of The Balochistan Project also have been reaching out to or contacted by other oppressed nationalities from what is now called Pakistan:  secular Pashtun, Sindhi, Punjabi Hindus, and others.  Stay tune, because you will be hearing a lot more about The Balochistan Project and eventually, the liberation of these nationalities.  Victims of a real occupation.