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Although most Baloch people boycotted the rigged Pakistani elections (video of ballot stuffing), the Baloch nationalist parties who were elected in the region were rewarded with a false victory and hold positions without any power.
These stories and many others portray the low voter turnout in Balochistan on threats and violence from Baloch separatist factions. If Baloch people were so frightened of violence then why were they out protesting the election of an illegal government. These stories and others like it are an attempt to justify the abduction and killing of Baloch people as well as attempting to turn Baloch people against one another.
Most developed and modern nations today have provided opportunity for regions of their countries to cede and become independent. In Canada, the province of Quebec was allowed to conduct referendum (voting) to decide if they wished to separate from Canada, they chose to remain. Also more recently in Britain, Ireland held a separatist referendum but chose to remain a province of Britain. Other nations have already set the precedent of how a developed modern country handles a separatist movement, yet Pakistan refuses to provide the people of Balochistan the same basic liberty and freedom of choice everyone else in the world recieves.
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