baluchi

In Pakistan, the US is funding Baluchi rebels that have been attacking Chinese engineers working on belt and road projects, and recently tried to assassinate the Chinese Ambassador.

Iran has significant Kurdish, Azeri, Baluchi and Arab minorities, Persians form cca 2/3 of the population.

The Baluchi cause (the subject of all your links) is a nationalist cause sometimes pretending to be a religious cause.

Perhaps if you have extremely esoteric tastes, like Baluchi newlywed cooking recipes, but for most views/interests, 50 million is more than enough.

If a Baluchi group ever got any significant power it would be a massive headache for Pakistan but it's not really a concern for the West.

Reza Baluchi had been warned by the Coast Guard that any efforts to attempt his journey would be futile and result in severe legal and financial retribution.

[In 2014] The Captain of the Port of Miami ordered Baluchi not to attempt to travel to Bermuda in his bubble.

> The US Coast Guard intercepted Reza Baluchi about 70 miles (110km) off Tybee Island Was he carried here by the current?

>The interrogators were convinced that Baluchi knew more than he was saying because he was a nephew of the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed.

(also, on your tu quoque in regards to Iran, there's not a lot to defend about that country but at least they give equal legal status to all people within their borders, kurdish or baluchi).

> [US Coast Guard] officers determined Baluchi was conducting a manifestly unsafe voyage," the criminal complaint says.

Furthermore according to Wikipedia: "As there are concerns over the pipeline being attacked by Baluchi insurgents, an alternative offshore route from Iran to the maritime boundary between India and Pakistan off Kutch was proposed.

A neuropsychologist carried out an MRI of Baluchi’s head in late 2018 and found “abnormalities indicating moderate to severe brain damage” in parts of his brain, affecting memory formation and retrieval as well as behavioral regulation.

Here's one paragraph that I found particularly unpleasant from the article: "After he was stripped naked, interrogators 'lined up' one-by-one to slam Baluchi's head into plywood - and, on occasion, concrete - walls over and over again, until they became 'fatigued,' whereupon another would take their place, in sessions lasting up to two hours.

As for Pakistan, the Western provinces are largely influenced by Afghan-Iranian culture (Pashto and Baluchi), while places like Sindh and Punjab had large Hindu populations before independence.

> Mr Baluchi's voyage began as officials were preparing for the arrival of a major hurricane.