Simultaneous protests to be held on International Day against Disappearances

Baloch Student Organisation – Azad and International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons are holding simultaneous protests in several countries on the International Day against Disappearances for the safe release of Zakir Majeed Baloch and oth
er missing persons.

The protest in London will be held on 30 August at 10 Downing Street between 4:00 – 7:00 pm.The protest in London will be held on 30 August at 10 Downing Street between 4:00 – 7:00 pm.

Zakir Majeed Baloch, the senior vice chairman of Baloch Student Organization – Azad is missing since 8th June 2009. He was abducted by Pakistani Intelligence agencies and his whereabouts are still unknown. It is pertinent to mention that recently the US Congressmen Dana Rohrabacher has written to the secretary of state Ms. Hilary Clinton to enquire about the case of Zakir Majeed and other forced-disappeared Baloch persons.

The protests are also aimed at highlighting other enforced disappearances and the kill and dump policy by Pakistani forces in Balochistan. It is to be noted that over 14,000 Baloch have been abducted by Pakistan’s security agencies. Around 500 people from the aforementioned figure have been killed under-custody. There brutally tortured and mutilated bodies were dumped in deserted areas and road sides across Balochistan.

The protest in London will be held on 30 August at 10 Downing Street between 4:00 – 7:00 pm.The venues and timings for Norway, Australia, Sweden, Ireland and Karachi will be announced soon.

The Baloch Community in Germany has also announced to support the protest call given by BSO-Azad and International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. Baloch Community in Germany will be holding a protest in Köln on the same day.

Pakistan Supreme Court orders in Balochistan have dispersed in the air: Mehlab Baloch

Quetta :The Daughter of Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch said she had hoped that after registering the cases of abducted Baloch her father would be released on the date given by Chief Justice and that she would be lucky enough to at least celebrate one Eid (Muslims Festival) with joy.

However, on 30 July 2012 Dr Deen Mohammad Bangulzia, abducted few days ago, has been released but her father, Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch who was abducted in June 2009 is still being detained at some undisclosed location. She further said, “I have tirelessly been waiting for my father but now our wish to celebrate a happy Eid is still in complete.”

She said after getting disappointed from all other institutions the assurance of supreme court had encouraged us but now the orders of court has also dispersed in the wind and the intelligence agencies do not consider decisions made by Supreme Court as noteworthy. Even though Chief Justice’s action against the Chief Minister had increased the credibility of the Court but now turning a blind eye to the cases of abducted Baloch is a question mark on decisions of Supreme Court.

Addressing the International powers she said, “Our final hope is now the role of the International institutions. If International Organisations also do not pay attention, then human lives are at grave danger which can turn into an unmanageable human tragedy.” American and many other countries have their own complexities and issues but keeping in view the importance of this region ‘South East Asia’ it is their responsibility to pay attention [to this region] where several Baloch activists’ including my father’s lives in grave danger, she added.

Security agencies threatened Qadeer Baloch to physically eliminate.

Quetta :

The Vice Chairman of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons has said that Pakistan’s security agencies and their informer have threatened to physically eliminate him if he doesn’t end the protest camp in front of Quetta Press Club.
The Daily Tawar, an Urdu language Newspaper in Balochistan, quoted Qadeer Baloch as saying, “Yesterday, a dark window car of agencies and another white car of an informer, approached me and said if you do not end your protest, you will suffer the same fate as Nazeer Marri and Saba Dashtyari Baloch.” Qadeer Baloch further said they also verbally abused him and pro-freedom Baloch leaders, adding that, he has recognized the informer who is still armature but he exposed himself.
Qadeer Baloch said he was adamant to continue his struggle and have never been intimidated by such threats neither will he be frightened in future.
Meanwhile the protest of families of abducted Baloch has entered its 853rd day and Qadeer Baloch has been an inspiration for the family members of abducted and extra-judicially Baloch activists. A delegation of BSO-Azad Shaal (Quetta) zone visited the protest camp to show their solidarity with loved ones of abducted persons.

Voice for Baloch Missing Persons rejected the FC’s special cell

Quetta :

The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons has categorically rejected the FC’s special cell which has been set up to help find missing persons. The VBMP termed it as an attempt by ‘Culprit trying to be the Judge’. “Formation of such a cell is only meant to divert the attention of the world and mislead judicial departments. All the evidence proves that the Intelligence agencies and FC are involved in enforced disappearances.”

These views were expressed by Nasrullah Baloch, the chairman of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. Addressing the media persons Mr. Baloch said all the evidence presented during Supreme Courts hearings have clearly indicated that the FC (Frontier Corps) is involved in abductions of Baloch activists. Setting up a cell by FC to collect the information about missing person is baseless and we believe as the Supreme Court has made its position clear about the FC, they are now trying to make themselves uncontroversial.

Nasruallh Baloch said the evidence and witnesses at Supreme Court hearings have proved that security agencies are involved in abductions but the advocate of FC keeps on repeating that abducted persons are not in the custody of security forces, adding that, “if the security forces are sincere about finding abducted persons, then they should affectively help the Supreme Court so that the abducted person can be found.”

He said if FC contacts his Organisation about the details of abducted persons, they will make a decision on organizational level after discussing the issue with other members. However, he said, FC has not played any positive role about abducted Baloch. Setting up a cell by FC will not help release abducted persons neither will it normalize the situation – such acts are baseless and ineffective.

Report On Enforced Disapearencess, Mutilated Bodies And Genocide Of Baloch Nation. By; Voice for Baloch Missing Persons

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Report On Enforced Disapearencess , Mutilated Bodies And Genocide Of  Baloch Nation.
By; Voice for Baloch Missing Persons


Balochistan, a sovereign state, was occupied by Pakistan on 27 of March 1948; since that day, in order to silence the voices for liberation and to instill fear among the general populace, Pakistan has employed a strategy of enforcedly disappearing people belonging to different age groups and occupations, of which only a small number has been documented in the list attached. The first people who were enforcedly disappeared were the friends and peers of Prince Abdul Karim, who were abducted in 1948, of which few were released and others are still missing, most probably murdered under custody.

Voice for Baloch Missing and Murdered Persons has documented the information of 2251 Balochs who have been enforcedly disappeared mainly within the last seven years and the information of 289 Balochs who have been murdered under the custody of Pakistan Army in the last 3 years. However the anticipated number of the enforcedly disappeared crosses 14,400 and victims of custodial killings cross the number of 400.

In the rebellion which arose in the years of 1973-1977, which was countered by Pakistan with the help of Iran, several common Balochs were enforcedly disappeared. This was the first instance when Pakistan Army made public its vicious approach towards silencing the Baloch voices by abducting common Balochs; they sold the women as sex slaves in Lahore and among the commodities being sold in Lahore also included children of Balochistan, who could barely even realize that their smiles were being sold cause of the voices their people were raising against injustice. Many of them women were later on “bought back” by their families from Lahore.

Though the list includes abductees from as early as the year 2000, however only very known earlier cases have been included. Mainly the documentation was started in the year 2005, when the cases of the disappearances began to rapidly increase. The chart below, highlight yearly flow of the disappearances. Moreover this should be taken under consideration that the cases of torture murders have been gradually increasing with the passage of time.

The list enclosed includes only a limited number of the victims, as due to insufficient resources and lack of communication means most of the cases could not be included. Furthermore, several of the families of the victims do not bring the cases in public after being threatened by Pakistan army, for they think their loved ones would be murdered under custody if they disclose the cases in public.

If timely measures are not taken, massacres committed by Nazis in Germany and by Pakistan in Bangladesh could yet again take place, and become a black spot on humanity itself.

The cases of enforced disappearances are not only limited to a p articular gender or an age group. Among the victims include an infant as young as of just 1 month and an elderly man of 92 years of old.
By the time this list was prepared, about 14400 were enforcedly disappeared, of which only 22 people of the documented victims were released and 289 of them were murdered. Most of the victims are still missing and several of them possibly murdered.

Among the people disappeared, victims’ occupations have been diverse as well. The victims do not only include journalists, political workers, doctors and teachers but also people working as civil servants, students and house wives were not spared. Balochistan, which is already banned for the international journalists and aid workers, is as unsafe for the locals who dare to speak against injustices and is threatening even for those, who are friends or family of the people who dare to speak.

Among the victims include an infant as young as of just 1 month and an elderly man of 92 years of old.By the time this list was prepared, about 14400 were enforcedly disappeared, of which only 22 people of the documented victims were released and 289 of them were murdered. The victims do not only include journalists, political workers, doctors and teachers but also people working as civil servants, students and house wives were not spared.

More recently, Pakistan has given pace to a torture murder strategy, also called as the kill and dump strategy among the human rights workers focused on Balochistan. In less than a year, more than 400 mutilated bodies of the enforcedly disappeared were dumped on busy streets and known places, with often chits in the pockets of the victims identifying them, when the bodies are tortured beyond recognition. The evident purpose of doing so is to instill fear among the general populace, to threaten of such deaths if they continued speaking against the atrocities being committed in Balochistan.

Voice for Baloch Missing and Murdered;
with the documented details of the victims, hereby appeals to the international organizations to take immediate measures to stop the human rights abuses in Balochistan. If timely measures are not taken, massacres committed by Nazis in Germany and by Pakistan in Bangladesh could yet again take place, and become a black spot on humanity itself. Immediate intervention, by sending fact finding missions to Balochistan, can not only safe hundreds and thousands of innocent lives, but would save humanity itself.

Appeal

Balochistan has been facing grave human rights violations since the day it was occupied, on 27th of March, 1948. Among the frequent measures employed by Pakistan Army to suppress the voices in Balochistan include enforced disappearances, target killings, custodial killings, public beatings, harassment, burning alive cattle and crops and poisoning water streams and wells. Since Pakistan’s occupation of Balochistan, several thousand innocent men, women and children have lost their lives and several others have been physically disabled.

These violations are getting grave by each day, and a systematic slow genocide is taking place. The silence of the International community on the issue is serving as a silent supporter of these human rights abuses, and if such sile nt support persists, this world would witness a catastrophe in terms of human values and virtues.

Voice for Baloch Missing and Murdered Persons has documented the information of 2251 Balochs who have been enforcedly disappeared mainly within the last seven years and the information of 289 Balochs who have been murdered under the custody of Pakistan Army in the last 3 years. However the anticipated number of the enforcedly disappeared crosses 14,400 and victims of custodial killings cross the number of 400.

These figures should alarm the International community of the capability of Pakistan Army to commit such heinous crimes. And on the behalf of Baloch people, the victims of such brutalities, we appeal to the International Community to send a fact finding mission to Balochistan and investigate by itself the gross human violations taking place in the region.

It is only then, that the International Community would become aware of the seriousness of this issue, and would be able to take immediate steps to restate humanity in this part of the world. We urge that if immediate measures are not taken, civilization would lose hopes in this region and inhumanity would eventually envelope the whole world.