We Must Not Look Away: A Call to Conscience on Balochistan

This report was authored by the Human Rights Department of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a grassroots collective working to document and resist systemic state violence in Balochistan.

What does it mean when an entire region becomes a zone of silence?

When families search for sons and daughters who never return, when students vanish from campuses, when human rights defenders are tortured behind closed doors—and when women, children, and the disabled are disappeared or killed by the very forces meant to protect them?

The latest semi-annual human rights report from the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), covering January to June 2025, answers these questions with chilling detail. It is not just a record of violations; it is a documentation of systemic dehumanization—state violence rendered routine.

From 752 enforced disappearances, with nearly 550 people still missing, to 117 extrajudicial killings, the numbers in the report are staggering. But the stories behind them are even more haunting. The testimony of Dr. Mahrang Baloch, written from prison, speaks to a cycle of repression that touches nearly every Baloch family. Her words remind us: silence is complicity.

This is not merely a story of state overreach. It is the erosion of basic humanity—of denying names, faces, and dignity to a people. The report draws attention to the kill-and-dump practices, collective punishment of family members, targeted killings of intellectuals, and the weaponization of the legal system to suppress dissent.

Perhaps most disturbingly, the report documents how children, students, and women are increasingly the targets of forced disappearances and lethal violence, indicating a deepening pattern of impunity and brutality.

Whether you are a policymaker, a student, a journalist, or someone who believes in the universality of human rights—this report demands your attention.

Because the crisis in Balochistan is not peripheral—it is a central moral test. The silence surrounding it, especially in international forums, is not accidental; it is manufactured through media blackouts, harassment of activists, and the criminalization of dissent. But this report cuts through that silence. It dares to document. It dares to name.

📘 You can access the full document on the BYC official Telegram channel. Here’s the link: https://t.me/bycofficial/1166