The rally, organised by advocacy group Voice For Baloch Missing Persons (VFBMP), began from a hunger strike camp outside the Quetta Press Club and marched through the provincial capital.
About 50 women and children participated in the protest holding placards and portraits of their loved ones and chanted slogans such as “release all missing Baloch political opponents or produce them before a court of law and “stop dumping bullet-riddled bodies of missing persons on roads”.
Addressing the protesters, VFBMP Chairman Nasrullah Baloch said that neither the judiciary nor the government had made any efforts to release even a single missing person.
“The issue of enforced disappearances has gone unnoticed, and that is why we have taken to the roads. It has been almost a year and a half since the relatives of missing persons have been on strike,” he said, adding that the National Crisis Management Cell is backing the government and its functionaries.
“Our apprehensions that all missing political opponents are subjected to brutal torture have realised as their mutilated and bullet-riddled bodies are turning up every day,” said sister of Jalil Reki, central information secretary of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP).
According to the VFBMP, as many as 230 bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons have so far been found dumped in desolated places of Balochistan.
“Victims belong to poor families and are merely political workers or affiliated with nationalist parties,” Nasrullah said, putting the figure of missing persons at an estimated 14,000.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 10th, 2011.
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government should take sever action regarding baloch missing persons and compensate victims family.
The situation has gone so bad in Baluchistan that some of the kidnapped persons personally participated to register their protest other kidnapped persons watched from the comforts of Dubai and London. The Government must do some thing about it.
@Sundeep: I agree with you, I also like to criticize the new so called free media as they don't neither go inside FATA areas and nor in deep Baluchistan to highlight the main issue to the world, so such issues can be resolved.
This is what happens when you read altered history. You never learn from your mistakes because you never committed any mistake. Had 1971 war was taught truly, people would have understand the outcome of such brutal oppression. Balochistan to me seems to be taking the same path as Bangladesh.
In itself is a non-issue, unless some other country gets behind the cause. With US and Pakistan going against each other's necks, I just hope Pakistani military would be prudent not to further exasperate the situation.
the judiciary and media had close their eyes regarding Baloch missing persons issue, that is why Baloch youth is turning towards militancy there no other option for them,
We (Baloch) highly appreciate the express tribune and specially Shehzad Baloch for reporting the most sensitive issue of Balochistan and i want your (ShehZad Baloch) contact info, please provide if possible
Yea, go ahead and act like as if we have the higher moral ground defending Kashmiri rights against India...when we do exactly the same evil deeds to our own citizens in Balochistan. Seems not a damn thing has been learned from 1971, and the same old prejudice, bigotry, abuse, bullying, oppression, atrocity and tyranny continues...
This is sad that government, law enforcement agencies and military not doing anything encouraging which can stops this, this will our Baloch brothers/sisters more angrier against Pakistan, every province need provincial autonomy and more provinces to eradicate this feeling of deprivation.
Justice & provincial autonomy is the key to success for "Pakistan". http://bit.ly/fqc9YP
Government is busy in doing nothing...they failed Pakistan in all areas.