Thursday, October 13, 2011

PAKISTAN: To-date 206 disappeared persons have been extrajudicially killed in Balochistan during the past 15 months

The situation of Balochistan is no different to that of the former East Pakistan (Bangladesh) when the military carried out operations and killed more than 300,000people in the guise of protecting ideological boundaries. 
The government does not consider extrajudicial killings anything out of the ordinary and one of the reasons for this is that they have lost all control over the military, Para-Military forces and state intelligence agencies that control the province. These military forces brook no interference into their affairs and use 'national security' and the protection of ideological boundaries to justify the killings and disappearances of innocent persons, particularly students.
Not a single day goes by without an extrajudicial killing. In the recent years a new phenomenon has been introduced in the cases of disappearances where the victims are extrajudicially killed in order to destroy any evidence of wrong doing. 

http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-144-2011

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