Social workers Abdul Khaliq Baloch, Abdul Malik Baloch and others visited VBMP (Voice for Baloch Missing Persons) camp in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan.
The families of missing Rashid Hussain, Imdadullah, Bilal Ahmed, Jameel Sarparrah and others also recorded their protests in camp.
The aged mother of missing Imdadullah appealed for the safe recovery of her son through the VBMP platform. She pleaded the Pakistani government to release Imdadullah who is missing for 6 years.
Rashid Hussain’s mother said that it has almost been two years since his son’s ‘abduction’, but so far, the national authorities have given no response to them. Hussain was a human rights activist who was allegedly detained by the Emirati intelligence forces in UAE on Pakistan’s behest. According to the official documents, Hussain was deported to Pakistan six months after his arrest. His whereabouts and condition remain unknown to this day.
Rashid Hussain’s mother said that, including the protests in front of Quetta and Karachi press club, I have also been attending the commission for missing persons. “The UAE and Pakistan are equal partners in the enforced disappearance of my son, and I will continue my protest until I get justice”, she added.
The camp set up by VBMP in Quetta also completed its 4057th day on Wednesday, protesting for the release of missing persons.
The leader of VBMP, Mama Qadeer Baloch, said that throughout the month of August – when Pakistani forces and intelligence agencies, along with local death squads, reportedly continued their ‘barbarism’ – the VBMP Protests were staged but did not reach the ears of the state media and human rights organizations in Pakistan.
Mama Qadeer said that history tells that the leader of political and student organizations, workers and even sympathizers fighting in, or supporting, the peaceful struggle of Balochistan have been targeted by the Pakistani imperialism – sometimes in overt military operations, sometimes covertly through the local death squads.
He said that the ‘abduction and massacre’ of workers and leaders of the Sindhi, Pashtun and Baloch nation, who are carrying peaceful struggle, by the state is no longer hidden from anyone.
According to Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), the campaign group by families of victims of enforced disappearances, more than 40,000 Baloch men, women and children are allegedly under the Pakistani custody.
VBMP maintains that at least 5,000 missing persons have been killed and dumped over the last decade.