A famous armed Baloch leader has urged international authorities to provide witness protection to recently released Baloch missing persons.
Aslam Baloch, a high-ranking commander of Baloch Liberation Army, has said that international authorities must treat recently released Baloch missing persons as witnesses and provide them witness protection.
In a tweet the Baloch leader said that the missing persons had to languish in Pakistani torture cells without committing any crimes.
International authorities must treat recently released Baloch missing persons as witnesses and provide them witness protection. These innocent civilians had to languish, without committing any crimes, for years in Pakistani torture cells. 1/2
— Aslam Baloch (@Aslam_Baluch1) July 17, 2018
In another tweet, the Baloch leader said that it is high time the perpetrators of these crimes are held to account and justice is achieved for the victims.
It is high time the perpetrators are held responsible and justice for victims is achieved. 2/2
— Aslam Baloch (@Aslam_Baluch1) July 17, 2018
The campaign groups in Balochistan claim that more than 20,000 Baloch have been ‘abducted’ by Pakistani security forces.
The term ‘abducted’ is widely used in Balochistan to connote arrests made by security forces as the arrested are not presented before court of law and instead kept in military camps.
However, recently few of the missing persons were released. Some of the released were under incommunicado detention for more than five years.