Occupied Balochistan: Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the Commissioner Office on Thursday for the safe and immediate recovery of enforced-disappeared Baloch political activists.
The protest rally started from the Quetta Press Club and marched towards the Governor’s House. However, the anti-riot police stopped the march before it reached the Governor’s House. The police blocked the road by putting up barricades to stop the protesters. A large number of relatives of the missing persons, including women, children and students, participated in the protest rally. The protestors were carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans in support of their demands. They chanted slogans against security agencies, the judiciary and the government for their failure to recover missing political activists.
Protestors said that student leaders, including Sana Sangat, Jalil Reki of BRSO had been whisked away by security forces years ago and that their whereabouts were still unknown. They said if the missing persons had been involved in any offence, then they should be produced before the court.
Addressing the protesters, Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Chairman Nasurllah Baloch said that more than 178 bullet-riddled bodies of Baloch missing persons had been found in the year and that they had the complete particulars of the 1300 people who were still missing. “The so-called independent judiciary has failed to resolve the issue of missing persons, it cheated the nation and the Baloch people by backing the hostage taking of political opponents and ignoring the humanitarian cases,” he said, adding that there was nothing worse than the bullet-riddled bodies, which showed signs of torture, of the missing persons being thrown into public places. He said that the Judicial Commission had so far failed to complete its report on the missing persons. “The Supreme Court has already announced that the government should select the chairman for the commission of missing persons’ cases but his name is yet to be announced,” he said.
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