His
Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary
General
United
Nation
United
Nations Plaza,
New
York, NY 10017
Dated:
29/08/12
Subject:
Missing persons in Balochistan and
the proposed visit of UN officials
Dear
Sir,
Baloch
Human Rights Council (UK) welcomes the forthcoming visit of a United Nations
delegation to investigate the human rights violations being committed by the
Pakistani security agencies in Balochistan. Human rights organizations and
Baloch political organizations have been demanding from the international
community to intervene and pressurize Pakistani authorities in order to stop
gross injustices to the Baloch people. The visit of a UN delegation is a very
appreciable and positive step in this regard.
Dear
Secretary General,
Over
the past many years, the people of Balochistan have witnessed immense and
brutal measures from the State of Pakistan in response to the legitimate
demands of the Baloch people for fundamental human rights of civil liberty,
justice and right to self-determination for sovereign Balochistan. The Pakistani state has
responded with the brutal attacks committed by its military, intelligence
agencies and paramilitary forces. Thousands of innocent men, women and children
have been mercilessly killed, hundreds of thousands have been displaced and
thousands are missing and their whereabouts are still unknown. Pakistani govt. officials have accepted of
more than 1000 missing person themselves last year and we genuinely believe
that their lives are in grave danger.
In
addition, the Pakistani military establishment has created numerous religious
terrorist organizations as proxy “Death Squads” comprising of drug peddlers,
dacoits and convicted criminals. These are working with different nomenclatures
and are given the task of physically eliminating the secular Baloch
intellectuals, political and human rights activists.
The
role of Pakistani army in the killings and abduction of the Baloch activists
has been highlighted in detailed reports from all well known human rights
organisations. A large number of prominent Baloch social, intellectual and
political figures have been targeted and eliminated by the state security
agencies of Pakistan directly or through their proxy terrorist religious and
criminal organizations and outfits like Lashkar-e- Jhangui and Defah-e-Aman
Committee. On the occasion of international day of forced disappearances on 30
August 2012, we expect that UN will take cognizance of this aspect of human
right violation in Balochistan.
Dear
Sir,
The
Pakistani state is waging a war against the Baloch without witnesses. Access
has been denied to foreign observers, journalists, and humanitarian
organizations to enter the conflict zones in Balochistan. It is requested that
the UN delegation must ensure that they should be allowed to visit interior
Balochistan (Not only to Quetta ) and meet the affected families and
representatives of the Baloch nationalist parties and organizations. The UN
officials should not depend on the statements of those who are firmly
affiliated with Pakistani security establishment in one way or the other. The
UN officials must ensure the physical safety and security of those families
& Baloch representatives who may be able to meet them.
Dear
Mr. Secretary General,
The
acts of human rights abuses in Balochistan implicate serious violations of
Pakistan’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, The International Convention
for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICCPED) and other
applicable norms of international human rights laws.
We
once again thank you for the intervention of United Nations in order to
pressurize the Pakistani state for an immediate end to genocide acts being
committed on the Baloch nation . We hope that this will give the much needed
relief to the Baloch nation long been subjected to inhuman atrocities.
Yours
Sincerely,
Samad
Baloch
General
Secretary
Baloch
Human Rights Council (UK)
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