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'Che Guevra days' in Baluchistan recalled
"Those who kill their own children and discriminate daily against them because of the color of their skin; those who let the murderers of blacks remain free, protecting them, and furthermore punishing the black population because they demand their legitimate rights as free men — how can those who do this consider themselves guardians of freedom?"[88]
These were words of Che Guevra at a United Nations conference in New York in 1964 where he spoke as head of the Cuban delegation.
Far way in Baluchistan in southwest Asia a group of young, starry-eyed intellectuals turned into guerrila warriors were trying to fight for the same ideals that Che Guevra espoused, recalls Mir Mohammed Ali Talpur.
Talpur lost quite a few of his his fingers trying to assemble a bomb.
A notable from Sindh and former guerilla leader Mir Mohammed Ali Talpur recalls the adrenalin rush days when as a young man he was with the "London group" in the hills of Baluchistan trying to defeat the fourth largest army in the world, Pakistan.
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Ahmar Mustikhan
Washington, District Of Columbia, United States





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