Baloch Child Creates Craft by Embedding Desert Thorns on His Hand

A Baloch child created a craft by using desert thorns and embedding them on his hand.

An image of a Baloch child has been circulated on social media that is filled with pain and suffering. This image should be seen across the entire world so that everyone knows what crimes the Islamic Republic regime is committing against its people.

This image shows a school child who, due to the lack of necessary equipment and tools for creating a craft, used desert thorns and his own hand as a tool in order to complete his school assignment. His family does not have the ability to provide the necessary means for their child’s education.

This child, enduring pain and burning, embedded desert thorns in his hand so that he would not fall behind in his schoolwork and his classmates. A child for whom education is a fundamental right, yet he is deprived of even the most basic educational resources. A child who has the desire to study and learn literacy, but must suffer pain to achieve it. Pain and burning that anyone would experience from a thorn piercing their hand or foot, and no one could bear to keep it in their body, but for this child it serves as a tool to keep up with his lessons.

The Baloch people have been oppressed since the past until now. It is not without reason that Balochestan is called the “gathering place of grievances” by Iran’s government, because it has an oppressed population. Balochestan has been under the complete control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards for years, and by imposing poverty, illiteracy, discrimination, and lack of basic living facilities for its children, it has assigned itself the last rank in all development and progress indicators.

The people of Balochestan live below the absolute poverty line and face an extremely tragic unemployment situation. Many Baloch children have been deprived of their right to education due to lack of resources, and in many cases, at a young age, they are engaged in work and income generation.

Children who have the right to sit at school desks and play with their peers, and should have no concern other than their studies, today are being victimized by the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic, which not only has provided no resources for them, but also takes their lives by gunfire.

A regime that shed tears and mourned for the death of a child 1,400 years ago, but ignores children who gaze into the future with anxious eyes and thousands of hopes, and crushes them under its oppressive boots along with all their dreams.

In the lexicon of any country, no religion or faith has recorded such oppression as what the Islamic Republic government has perpetrated against its people. Crimes for each of which it should be held accountable.

In hope of a day when children can think and strive for the future ahead without any worries and with the best resources.