BLF Makes Appeal Against Recruitment in to Bahrain Army



Quetta (ONLINE): The Baloch resistance organization Baloch Liberation Front has made an appeal against being recruited into the Bahrain army. Speaking to ONLINE via satellite phone from an unknown location, Baloch Liberation Front spokesperson Basham Baloch said that the Bahraini army is currently trying to recruit people from the Makran area.



"Under the current conditions, we appeal to the Baloch nation not to become a part of any tyrant and oppressive army, as the Baloch nation is itself already in a state of war and is going through a sensitive period. Instead of becoming killers-for-rent, the Baloch youth should join their own national armies (the Baloch Liberation Front, Baloch Liberation Army, and Baloch Republican Army) to make the nation's independence a reality."



He added: "We warn all such establishments to stop the recruitment in Makran immediately. We are in a state of war ourselves and are struggling against an oppressor ourselves. We do not want want the Baloch to become mercenaries."


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Just to give a bit of background, this is not the first time Baloch nationalists have opposed the recruitment of Baloch as mercenaries in the armed forces of the Gulf countries. In 1979, a student activist by the name of Hameed Baloch famously tried to shoot an Omani officer who was trying to recruit Baloch people into the Omani army to fight against the Dhofar insurgency. Hameed Baloch is now viewed as one of the most famous martyrs of the Baloch nationalist movement. See:

http://www.balochunity.org/facts/930/