During the last 500 years, humanity has displayed on a colossal scale its capacity for creative genius and ruthless destruction, for brutal oppression and indomitable survival, for rigid tradition and rapid change. The human evolved to their present state of development at great cost to their original, indigenous peoples, and at great cost to those whose labor enabled modernization under the yoke of that protracted crime against humanity, slavery. Even so, a good idea is implicit in the Declaration of many countries constitutions: that all people are "endowed with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." That the idea of a just society, contained in those words, remains unrealized is what compels this declaration.
Not only has the idea not been realized, but we are moving further away from its realization by the hour. Global capitalism, both the cause and effect of neo-liberal and foreign oriented policies, has facilitated the transfer of enormous wealth from the bottom to the top of society in recent years, concentrating the control of abundant resources in ever fewer hands. As a result, the working people who constitute the vast majority of people have confronted a steady decline in their prospects for earning a decent living and controlling their lives. In the Pakistan, the threat of sudden unemployment hangs over every one. We pay unfair taxes and receive fewer services, while multibillion-dollar fortunes accumulate in the hands of few peoples. Prisons proliferate as budgets are slashed for sake of countries defence from unknown enemies, situation for education, health care getting worse day by day and welfare does not exists. The grip of big money on the two-party electoral process and army generals and political bureaucrats has robbed us to mere survival situation as we are told over the political institutions that are mandated to serve us. We are losing ground, and democracy is more and more elusive.
As for people of Baloch descent, most we carry an enormously disproportionate burden. In the Pakistan , the living legacy of unjust lootings and shootings , and the pervasiveness of institutional Punjab, have placed us on all-too-familiar terms with poverty, urban and rural; exploitative conditions of employment; disproportionately high rates of unemployment and underemployment; inferior or no health care; substandard or no education; the corrosive drug trade, with its accompanying gun violence; police brutality and its partner, excessive incarceration; ; a biased legal system, and discrimination of every kind -- persistent even after the end of legal segregation.
Resistance and fighting is in our marrow as Baloch people, given our history in this place. First With British imperialism than to Pakistani occupation. We must fight with all means for our economic and political unity freedom for self-determination against slavery, other wise we have no place in 21st Century among honorable nations, and we have struggled and died for justice. We believe that struggle must continue, and with renewed vigor. Our historical experiences suggest to us, by negative example, what a truly just and democratic society should look like: It should be democratic, not just in myth but in practice, a society in which all people -- regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, nationality, national origin, sex, age, family structure, or mental or physical capability -- enjoy full human rights, the fruits of their labor, and the freedom to realize their full human potential. United we stand so unity is must for our struggle. |
