Post UN visit: Agencies threatening to kill chairman and members of our organisation: VBMP
Reposted from BalochWarna | September 18, 2012 Post UN visit: Agencies threatening to kill chairman and members of our organisation: VBMP;
Also see: UN Team on Missing Persons Concludes Pakistan Visit;
Also see: The News: UN team on missing persons arrives;
Also see DailyTimes.com.pk's Arrival of UN mission sparks outcry in National Assembly;
Express Tribune's Enforced disappearances: UN team visit causes panic among MPs;
DailyTimes.com.pk's A UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) mission
Left: Abdul Qadir Baloch, Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Vice President and R: Nasrullah Baloch, President
Quetta: Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) Chairman Nasurrallah Baloch has said that his and other members of VBMP's lives are in danger. He has sent a letter to the Supreme Court registrar and the United Nations. He informed the SC and UN that if any harm should come to him or other members of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, the secret agencies of Pakistani should be held responsible.
Addressing a press conference at the VBMP's token hunger-strike camp outside of the Quetta Press Club that entered 907 days on Tuesday, he alleged that the Tahreek-e Nifaaz-e-Aman (TNA), a shadow group, had hurled death threats at him and other members. He was flanked by Abdul Qadeer Baloch, the Vice Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing Persons. They said VBMP was an impartial group and struggling to secure the release of missing people. "The TNA has already claimed responsibility for throwing several bullet-riddled and tortured bodies of Baloch political activists," Nasrullah Baloch said and added that the same elements had been threatening the hunger-strike camp.
They said Baloch women came from far-flung areas of Balochistan to record their statements so that their beloveds could be recovered but they were being terrorised by secret agencies. The VBMP said the proxy group had the full backing of state's military, FC and other security agencies. They said that the Pakistan military's excesses in Balochistan has forced Baloch mothers, sisters and daughters to emerge from their homes and into the streets to protest for the recovery of their loved ones who have either been killed or are still being detained by the state.
The VBMP Chairman said that several people who had dared to register FIRs of their missing beloveds were killed and their tortured dead bodies tossed on roadsides. Responding to a question, Baloch said that over 500 families of missing persons came from all over Balochistan and recorded their statements before the United Nations team.
"The UN group assured us they would share their report with the Ministry of Interior. We hope that they will make an impartial report and bring the real facts to the world," he said and added that they would not end their token hunger strike camp until the last missing person is recovered.
After threats were made by the Tahreek-e Nifaaz-e-Aman, VBMP leaders said, "We have written letters to the Supreme Court and the UN and informed them that we are receiving life threats." They said if the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances issues their report through Pakistani ministries, then the VBMP will have objections. However we hope the WGEID will compile and publish a fact-based report reflecting the ground realities.
