Overnight Demolition of Several Baloch Families’ Homes in Komb, Chabahar by the Housing Foundation Accompanied by Military Forces
According to the Balochistan Human Rights Group, at dawn on November 1, 2025, forces from the Housing Foundation, accompanied by military units, raided the Komb area of Chabahar County, located behind Police Station No. 13 and next to the Monday Bazaar, and demolished the home of a widowed Baloch woman using bulldozers and heavy machinery. This operation, carried out in the middle of the night without prior notice, left the woman and her young children homeless.
According to the woman, who was later seen sitting on the ruins of her demolished home, the officers were destroying the two rooms where she and her children lived from around 1:30 a.m. to 4 a.m. She said: “I am a widow with no provider; my brothers are unemployed. We were in need, but [the Housing Foundation agents] came and destroyed our home and all our belongings with bulldozers.” In a video sent by a local resident, another citizen addressed the authorities, asking: “If the demolition of houses is really legal, why do you do it at night? Come in daylight, with a judicial order and the relevant officials present.”
Residents of the Komb area say the lands in this region belonged to the local people before the revolution, and they have lived in these houses for decades. However, in recent years, the Islamic Republic’s agencies have been demolishing homes belonging to Baloch citizens under pretexts such as “national lands” and “land grabbing.” Some individuals, taking advantage of the area’s marginalized status, have built houses on disputed lands, which has led to their demolition by government agencies.
It is said that the main goal of these actions is to confiscate the ancestral lands of the Baloch people and allocate them to individuals connected to the government as part of the policy of “changing the demographic composition” of Balochistan—a process that, with the silence and indifference of officials, continues to render more Baloch families homeless every day.
According to the annual report of the Balochistan Human Rights Group, in 2024, military and governmental bodies such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Housing Foundation, the Natural Resources Organization, and municipalities carried out at least 36 demolitions of Baloch citizens’ homes and Sunni places of worship. The cities of Zahedan and Chabahar each accounted for 17 of these demolitions, with one house-burning incident reported in Delgan and one demolition of a Sunni mosque in Bam. A comparison with 2023, which recorded 21 cases, shows a 71.43% increase in home demolitions by state authorities.
