Saifullah Rodeni went missing on November 22, 2013, when he was on his way to his duty as a levies sepoy. Eight years later, the authorities have now registered the First Investigation Report on his name, thus legally confirming that he is a “missing person.”
The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) completed 4229th day of its historical protest in Quetta on Saturday. Members of the Quetta civil society visited the camp to express solidarity with the families of the Baloch missing persons. Speaking at the occasion, the VBMP Vice-Chairman Mama Qadeer Baloch said that the Pakistani intelligence agencies and the security forces have been “abducting” the Baloch youth and then throwing them in harrowing torture cells. There, these “missing persons” are subjected to various forms of “inhumane” physical and mental torture, he said.
Mama Qadeer said that the “state-backed tyranny” has reached its crescendo – numerous mutilated and partially decomposed dead bodies have been found in various areas of Balochistan. Hundreds of dead bodies have been found buried in mass graves throughout Balochistan – in Panjgoor, Tootak, Khuzdar and Dera Bugti. These mass graves have revealed the true face of the Pakistani state before the world, he said.
Farzana Baloch, the sister of the missing Saifullah Rodeni, was also at the camp on Saturday. She said that her brother had gone missing in 2013 and the Pakistani authorities have now registered the FIR on his name. She said that we are living a life of agony – Saifullah was the sole breadwinner of our family, and his disappearance has left us stranded. Both my parents breathed their last in the hope of seeing their son for the last time, she said.