Shero Marri

Sher Muhammad Marri also known as Babu Shero, Shero Marri, General Sherof and Baloch Tiger. Here sitting in a Giddan, traditional Baloch tent, with his Kalashnikovs and bullets.

          Babu Shero died on 11 May 1993 in a Mumbai (Bombay) hospital, in India, due to illness. He was the first Baloch who gave the Baloch armed struggle a new shape by following the tactics of modern guerrilla warfare, against the occupiers of Balochistan. In early 1960s his Parari (fighters) attacked the occupiers in Marri and in Jahlawan area under Mir Ali Muhammad Mengal, the second in command of
General Sherof.

          Babu Shero was a great military commander. During last days of his life, He broke up with his former comrades. I have seen a little Baloch girl who was sold in Punjab by Pakistani Punjabi soldiers for just 5 rupees. we are slaves.Scripts from General Shero.

                                                           

by Channel 4, London, 1980’s.