SteppeWolff
Trusted Member
Your argument is of rage and fear, not reason. You're asking for collective punishment of entire ethnic groups, children no less and all of it is based on the actions of insurgents, and you're trying to wrap that under the guise of "patriotism" and "security." And what you're advocating for is "state sponsored ethnic persecution". That is not justice. That is fascism.
And citing tragedies like APS to justify internment camps, as if grief licenses moral collapse. But collective trauma is not a green light for collective punishment. APS was a national tragedy, yes; but since when do you avenge murdered children by locking up other children who had nothing to do with it? That’s not strength, that’s cowardice disguised as "policy".
You say Pakistan “tried dialogue for two decades.” What dialogue? Show me where there was sincere, inclusive political engagement, where grievances over missing persons, resource exploitation, military occupation, or denial of rights were genuinely addressed. Throwing aid money into a war torn province while denying people a voice isn’t reconciliation; it’s bribery with boots on their necks. You can’t fix systemic oppression with charity and expect loyalty in return.
Your analogy with Norway and Russia is nonsense. Norway didn’t colonize and exploit a minority region for decades and then wonder why resentment brewed. Russia does have separatist violence in its peripheries, just like India does in Kashmir. The idea that “Muslims in India are calm” is laughably false. What you see there is not peace, it’s fear under the shadow of state violence, lynchings, and second class citizenship. That’s not a model to follow; it’s a warning of what not to become.
And praising China’s Uyghur camps as "successful" is funny. Success by what standard? Silencing an entire culture through digital surveillance, forced labor, sterilization, and indoctrination? That’s not peace, that’s a graveyard of human rights. And if you think the world didn’t blink read the UN reports, read the sanctions, read the condemnations. What you’re celebrating is ethnic cleansing with better branding.
You want to "educate" Baloch and Pashtun kids by removing them from their communities and shoving state propaganda down their throats. That’s not education, that’s brainwashing. The state’s job isn’t to make people blindly loyal, it’s to serve them, protect their rights, and earn their trust. You can’t beat people into patriotism. The more you repress, the more you radicalize.
Your view is not security driven, it's supremacist. You want submission, not unity. You believe only coercion works, because you fear the alternative: accountability, inclusion, equality. That’s not strength. That’s failure masquerading as resolve.
If someone wants to actually solve the grassroots issues of Balochistan and eventually annihilating the insurgency, re education camps would be the last thing they would do, if they are sane.
