Sammi Deen Baloch, a prominent Baloch rights activist, has challenged Pakistan’s “propaganda” on enforced disappearances and missing persons, whom Islamabad claims have joined the armed insurgency against the Pakistani administration.
In a video message on X, Sammi Baloch asked Pakistan to reflect on its policy-making and legislative shortcomings to understand and address its failures in Balochistan. Sammi alleged that the Pakistani administration has employed its entire resources to prove that all the forcibly disappeared individuals are terrorists and are involved in anti-Pakistan activities.
“The demand for the recovery of the missing persons in Balochistan is gaining international support and attention. In retaliation, on one side, the Pakistani administration has started its campaign to justify the brutalities their representatives inflict upon us. And on the other hand, it is using its entire machinery to falsify and demean the entire issue of enforced disappearances,” Sammi Deen Baloch said in the video message.
مسنگ پرسن کے سنگین معاملے کو پروپیگنڈے سے نہیں جھٹلا سکتے ہیں ریاست اپنی پالیسیوں اور قانون سازیوں پر غور کرکے حالات کو سدھارنے کی کوشش کرے۔ pic.twitter.com/MA8AqldoCt
— Sammi Deen Baloch (@SammiBaluch) March 23, 2024
‘Fake propaganda’ by Pakistan
Sammi noted that the popular fake propaganda spun by Islamabad is that all the forcibly disappeared people are not victims but orchestrating anti-Pakistan activities in the hilly areas of Pakistan.
“In Balochistan, none of the abducted individuals are kidnapped from deserted locations. They are generally abducted from their own houses, offices, markets, and educational institutions. Most of the time, these individuals are abducted in front of their family members,” Sammi alleged.
Hence, there are eyewitnesses present for each abduction. In some cases, there are also pieces of evidence in the form of CCTV footage, she added.
Baloch people abducted, tortured by Pakistani Army
The rights activist asked if all abducted Baloch people are terrorists, then who are the people that are released by the Pakistani army?
“It happens rarely, but sometimes, some of these individuals are released. The majority of them are subjected to mental and physical torture. The family of many abductees are still protesting, and sometimes the lucky ones who return give statements of being captured and tortured in secret cells of the Army,” she said.
“The only question here is that, if all abducted Balochis are terrorists then who are the ones who the Army releases? And why does the media and administration don’t ask these people where were they? Does it not mean that these people have returned from jail cells?” Sammi Baloch asked.
Every Baloch victim of abduction
The activist claimed that every person in Balochistan has either witnessed or been kidnapped at some point in their lives.
“Most of these abductees remain missing and the ones who fatefully return one day are barely alive. The ones who come back mostly spend their entire lives adjusting to their normal lives or flee from the country once and for all. Barely a handful of these tortured individuals join the armed rebellions. There are only two cases where an abducted individual was involved in such an armed protest,” she said.
Pakistan branding abductees as terrorists
Sammi Deen Baloch said that the entire fake propaganda machinery is now trying to prove that all the forcibly disappeared people are terrorists, “building their entire argument just upon these two cases.”
“The information about abductions and the release of both of these cases is available in the public domain. However, there is no evidence of when, where, or why these individuals joined armed resistance after they were subjected to inhumane torture. It would have been beneficial if the entire mechanism of the Pakistan Army, had worked for the betterment of the Baloch people and improved their policies and their laws,” she said.
She also accused the media of keeping the issues of Balochistan in the dark.
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