
Should American universities pay Third World killer dictators for their talk?
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Slain premier Benazir Bhutto believed killed with General Musharraf's connivance.
Baluch statesman Nawab Akbar Bugti, 80, who was killed on the orders of General Musharraf.
Member of a DC-based Baluch group has accused former dictator and coup leader General Pervez Musharraf for being responsible for killing civilian leaders in Pakistan.
In a statement castigating the Stevenson University administration for inviting the former dictator, Mohammad Ali Baluch, a member of the American Friends of Baluchistan, said, "Musharraf was responsible for killing Baluchistan's most popular leader former governor and chief minister Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti and also former premier Benazir Bhutto. Like any dictator he belongs to the dustbin of history not the pedestal of learning at a private American University, the Stevenson University."
Musharraf, who left the presidency in disgrace fearing impeachment, has been invited by the university on Tuesday [September 29, 2009] to kick off the 2009-2010 Baltimore Speaker Series at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Sponsors of the event include Baltimore Sun, public radio WYPR, Greater Baltimore Committee and St. John Properties.
Baluch recalled Musharraf had seized power through a coup in October 1999 after dismissing a democratically elected government [of former premier Nawaz Sharif]. "Like any tinpot dictator he is bereft of intellect and scholarship and we fail to unerstand why Stevenson University chose to pay and honor a criminal despot," Baluch blasted the university administration.
Baluch asked peace and democracy loving students and faculty of the Stevenson University, residents of Baltimore and those who believe in peace, justice and democracy to come out to the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to protest against the invitation to Musharraf at 8 pm on Tuesday.
He said Musharraf had ordered a military operation in Baluchistan that saw thousands of Baluch, including women and children, killed in Baluchistan.
Baluch said Musharraf was in cahoots with the Taliban and Al Qaeda and recalled the general who actually put Musharraf into power, General Mehmud Ahmed of the infamous Inter Services Intelligence, had actually asked Taliban ruler Mullah Omar to fight against the United States.
There have been widespread reports in the media that money to the 911 terrorists was bankrolled under orders of General Ahmed
Musharraf has no roots in Pakistan but very strong roots in India where his mother was a famous dancer from Lucknow, a city known for its brothels since the Mogul era.
Other than killing of thousands of Baluch afer the Baluch leaders refused Pakistani authorities to explore for oil in their occupied territories, Musharraf had also imposed an emergency to prolong his rule and dismissed the chief justice of the highest court of his country.
Musharraf's long list of crimes include killing former member of the Baluchistan assembly, Nawabzada Bala'ach Marri.
On Tuesday, a daylong protest will be staged at the Owing Mills campus of the Stevenson University followed by protest at the Myerhoff Symphony Hall at 7 pm in the evening. The address is 1212 Cathedral St. Baltimore, MD 21201.
Baluch said it was shameful of institutes in the Free World to help promote dictators, who ruthlessly kill people, in their home countries.
Musharraf has been summoned by the Baluchistan High Court for the extra judicial killing of Nawab Bugti.
I sometimes feel I'm standing at the edge of the ocean on these issues. So insignificant, so impotent. But, not in a good way like when I am standing at the edge of the ocean. A huge storm is brewing...
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Mr. Mustikhan,
Your comments are false and without merit.
Mr. Bugti was a ruthless warlord and owned thousands of Baluch slaves. He treated the great Baluch people like cattle and killed them for no reason.
He commited acts of treason against the state of Pakistan which resulted in his death.
It's asinine to protest educational institutions (Stevenson) because Mr. Musharraf was given clearance by State Dept/US Government to speak throughout USA.
Mr. Musharraf & Pakistan has been a good friend to the United States after 9/11 and I would want my children to hear from his experiences during an uncertain era.
Please refrain from negative comments.
Thanks.
Sam
hopefully someone throws a shoe at Musharraf also...
@ Sam (Stooge of Musharraf)
Nawab Bugti lived liked a hero and died like a hero defending his people and country against foreign occupiers (Punjabi savage army). Your allegation against Shaheed Bugti prove your racist behavior towards the Baloch Nation.
You're trying to protect a man (Musharraf) whose hands are soaked with the blood of thousands of innocent Baloch. Musharraf is the one who sacked the cheif justice of Pakistan and imposed a Marshall-law to protect his own pity interests.
Musharraf is the one who ordered the military operation in Balochistan, It was musharraf's instructions to bomb a Hindu Temple in Dera Bugti where 45 innocent Hindu Baloch women, children and elderly were killed. Also 80 women, children were killed in different areas of Marri agency on 17 December 2005. In 2006 35 employer of PPL were arrested and imprisoned - some of them are still missing, their only fault was that they were Baloch (Bugti) and Musharraf wanted to employ Punjabis that is why are ordered the arrest of the Bugti Baloch people.
I say Shame of Sam and anyone else who tried to protect a ruthless dictator like Musharraf and justifies his inhuman actions against the people of Balochistan.
West must take action against this killer instead of welcoming him in their counties.
To Mr. Foreign Affair (Sam)
Nawab Bugti is a legend for the entire Baloch nation, just like Abraham Lincoln was for the American people, Martin Luther King Jr for African Americans and Nelson Mandela for South Africans. He made history when he decided to die for the Baloch's rights, protecting their indentify and homeland who told the Times Magzines "It's better to die? as the Americans say? With your spurs on," says Bugti. "Instead of a slow death in bed, I'd rather death come to me while I'm fighting for a purpose."
Dictator Pervez Musharraf has never been a trustworthy ally to begin with as "War on terror" with the Americans. If he was an ally then why are the Taliban main bases still in Pakistan? Why are they (Taliban’s) still attacking the NATO forces from Pakistan soil (NATO logistics trucks are burned on Pakistan territories)
Such attacks never happen without the support of notorious Pakistani intelligence called ISI. This state has been enjoying unconditional financial and lethal weapons support by United States for decades. If there are any trustworthy allies to the US, it has to be the secular Baloch people not radical Pakistanis who keep their double game (partial support against the Taliban’s) just to get their financial support. It is time for the US to end there support for Pakistan.
Dictator Musharraf, shamelessly confessed in his biography book that that he sold innocents Pakistani citizen to US for $ 5000 each during the post 9/11 and let the US torcher them, he was a phony allies of "war on terror" today he is invited to tell his phony stories as a speakers to Americans and pocketed more US tax dollars.
Any one who truly believes in freedom, human rights, democracy than such brutal and murders should be bar speaking in any institutions. Who was opposed to the freedom of the expression to his own people? I think it is the time for both US and Pakistan that people can not be fooled any more they know that Musharraf was a murderer and US is still siding such dictators, that’s why one well know American South Asian expert Selig S. Harrison stated Mushrraf is “American favorite dictators.”
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