After a successful month of implementing the campaign in London, the World Baloch Organisation today kicked-off human rights advertisement on taxis in New York city.
Rooftops of more than 100 yellow taxis have been placed with colourful "#Free Balochistan from human rights abuses by Pakistan," slogan in New York city, the organisation said in a statement today.
"Balochistan was annexed by Pakistan against the peoples will in 1948 and has been under military occupation ever since, with mass kidnappings, torture and executions by the Pakistan army. Pakistan wants to keep this hidden. We are doing this campaign to expose these abuses," said Bhawal Mengal, spokesperson for the World Baloch Organisation (WBO), which has organised the advertisements.
He said the campaign's "goal is to raise awareness among the American public about the ethnic persecution and gross human rights violations in Pakistan-occupied Balochistan and support the Baloch peoples quest for peace and freedom."
Alleging that thousands of Baloch people have been murdered or disappeared by Pakistani security forces, he said, "we want the US to cut off all military aid to Pakistan and hold it accountable for its crimes in Balochistan."
A similar advertisement campaign was launched in London.
Mengal said the World Baloch Organisation is a peaceful, lawful lobby against Pakistan's "war crimes and human rights abuses" in Balochistan.
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