sentences:  Large numbers of BSO activists were imprisoned during this period, said to be 60% of all prisoners in Balochistan.In 1984, the BSO–Awami merged back into the main BSO, following the request of Hameed Baloch, who was given death sentence for an attempted assassination of an Omani colonel.However, fragmentation of the Baloch political parties gave rise to parallel fragmentation in the BSO as well.