'Che Guevra days' in Baluchistan recalled

by Ahmar Mustikhan | July 5, 2009 at 12:44 am
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"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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