Bazaar Merchants Strike in Zahedan, Chabahar and Surrounding Cities on the Anniversary of Bloody Friday in Zahedan
Bazaar merchants in the cities of Zahedan, Chabahar and other cities of Sistan and Baluchestan held a strike on the anniversary of Bloody Friday in Zahedan.
Today, Saturday, corresponding to 8 Mehr 1402 (September 30, 2023), marks the first anniversary of Bloody Friday in Zahedan, a day when over one hundred people were killed by bullets fired by government forces and over three hundred were injured in Makki Mosque, a day that turned Zahedan into a city of blood.
Last Friday, 7 Mehr, the people of Zahedan took to the streets after Friday prayers in protest and to avenge their loved ones, confronting the government system, and these protests also took place in other cities of Sistan and Baluchestan. Today, 8 Mehr, which marks the anniversary of the killing of Baluch people from children to the elderly in Zahedan, all bazaar merchants and shopkeepers have gone on strike and closed their shops. Today’s merchants’ strike reflects the protests and renewed presence of Baluch people in the streets.
According to a speech by Mullah Abdulhamid, the Friday Prayer Leader of Zahedan, the people of Baluchestan are patient, but they will not exchange the blood of their loved ones for compensation, and they do not even lodge complaints because they know that not only will justice not be served, but their complaints will not even be addressed. Therefore, they are forced to claim the rights of their loved ones themselves. The people of Baluchestan may lack literacy, but they have intelligence and are united with one another, and the secret of Baluchestan’s victory lies in the unity and solidarity of its people.
