Protest rally: Procession against disappearances

The protest in Quetta was against non-recovery of Baloch political workers.

QUETTA: Relatives of missing persons took out a procession in Quetta on Eidul Azha to register their protest against non-recovery of Baloch political workers who had been missing for years from different parts of the province. Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VFBMP), an organisation striving for recovery of missing Baloch political activists had organised the rally. Addressing the protesters, VBMP president, Nasrullah Baloch, said extrajudicial arrests had started in 2002 in Balochistan and still Baloch political activists are subjected to enforced disappearances by state-backed institutions. He said more than 600 mutilated bodies of missing persons, including political workers, writers, poets and lawyers had been recovered. He said UN and other humanitarian organisations should take the issue of missing persons seriously and play their role for their early and safe recovery of missing persons.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 19^th, 2013.