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bemildred

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5. People have been know to help them from time to time.

Reply to 1000words (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 26, 2013, 06:22 AM

Oct 2013

As with the Kurds on the West. They (the Balochi resistance) have not given much evidence that I have seen of either winning or going away, on either side of the border, again like the Kurds.

Ethnic and religious boundaries rarely follow the colonial political borders drawn 100 years ago, and this is a continuing problem for the colonial successor states.

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Iran guards 'killed in clash' on Pakistan border [View all] Bosonic Oct 2013 OP

Heavy casualties for "bandits or rebels." 1000words Oct 2013 #1

People have been know to help them from time to time. bemildred Oct 2013 #5

a sunni shiite conflict ? JI7 Oct 2013 #2

That area is home to a long-standing separatist movement on both sides of that border. bemildred Oct 2013 #3

IIRC, currently we're in the 3rd wave of this kind of thing. Igel Oct 2013 #6

Update at link: Iran hangs 16 rebels 'in reprisal for border deaths' muriel_volestrangler Oct 2013 #4