Baloch missing persons must be produced in courts

Islamabad: Chairman Voice for Baloch Missing Persons has said that Balochistan missing persons must be produced in courts if involved in treason.

While addressing a press conference with the relatives of at least 15 disappeared person at National Press Club on Wednesday Nasrullah Baloch, Chairman, Voice for Baloch Missing Persons said that he has the particulars of 1300 Baloch missing persons, out of these 148 were women and 159 were children.

He said that the arrest and abduction of Balochistan people was started in 1973 which has been accelerated by the passage of time.

He said that they were murdered after arrest now a days and the dead bodies were thrown in un-populated areas.

Moreover, the dead bodies of 130 missing persons were recovered out of which 80 people were arrested and extra judicially killed by secret agencies and Frontier Core (FC). He said that the government and human rights organizations failed to highlight and resolved the issue.

The role of political parties is insufficient in this regard and appealed Supreme Court, civil society and international human rights organizations to play the requisite role for prevention of such heinous crimes against humanity to recover Balochistan missing persons, he said.

The briefing was coincided with the latest Supreme Court hearing in the missing persons case which took place on Wednesday morning.

He said that this is the second time that they have set up a protest camp to call attention to the plight of thousands of Baloch who have been abducted by security agencies over the past few years.

He said that a delegation of VBMP spent two weeks in Islamabad a year ago and also attended a hearing in Supreme Court and Justice Javed Iqbal gave assurance at that time that the situation would be improved and the missing people will be recovered.

However instead passage of 12 months the situation in Balochistan has further deteriorated.

He said that not only abduction continued rather a new reign of terror has spread throughout the province as mutilated bodies of abducted youth are being found on almost on daily basis.

Qadeer Baloch, Vice-Chairman said that it appears as if the majority of Baloch people who want peace and stability were being deliberately radicalized by the actions of the security agencies.

He said that the families of the young men who have been abducted intend to know about their relatives adding that these were very basic demands however the government has not taken action on the issue.

The state is breeding enormous resentment within ordinary Baloch people and creating fertile ground for separatist movements.