The Baloch march against disappearances reached Naushahro Feroze Sindh The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons Long March reached to Naushahro Feroze from Moro city of Sindh on Thursday. It was the 21st day of their march from Karachi and day 48 from Quetta toward Islamabad. They walked more than 20 kilometres. Hundreds of Sindhi people and activists of freedom loving Sindhi political parties including JSMM Burfat group and Awami Worker Party joined the from Moro city. The Sindhi activists and Baloch marchers have chanted slogans for the ‘RELEASE ALL ABDUCTED BALOCH & SINDHI, WHERE ARE YOU UNO BREAK YOUR SILENCE UNO, WE WANT JUSTICE, WALK FOR JUSTICE, SAVE BALOCH SAVE HUMANITY and STOP GENOCIDE OF BALOCH PEOPLE ETC’. The marcher also kept reading out the names of abducted Baloch persons and called for their immediate release. The leaders of VBMP and other participants spoke to local media of Sindh at Moro Press Club and said that Sindh government has not provided them security in past several days. They also criticised the mainstream Pakistani media for ignoring their long march. The speakers included Qadeer Baloch, senior vice chairman of VBMP, Farzana Majeed Baloch general secretary of VBMP and sister of abducted senior vice chairman of BSO-Azad, Sammi Baloch daughter of abducted Dr Deen Mohammad Baloch and sister of an abducted Baloch student from Karachi. They said their loved ones along with thousands of other Baloch youth have been abducted by state security agencies in presence of eye-witnesses. “But the all the Pakistani institution including the judiciary have failed us. Despite nominating the culprit and video evidence from Balochistan police and witness statements of ministers the court failed to arrest or even question a single FC and military official,” they added. The marcher who walked on rough road said it was very difficult to push the handcart and walked on such a bumpy road but they were ready to endure difficulties for their loved one and to save the lives of innocent Baloch political prisoners currently in custody of Pakistani forces. VBMP says Pakistani forces abducted around 18000 Baloch activists and 1500 among them have been killed under custody. Mr Hasil Bezinjo a senior leader of NP, the party in power in Balochistan, accepted in private TV channel talk show that Army has killed more than 700 abducted Baloch. VBMP Long March team received a huge reception when they reached Noorpur area of Sindh. Many hundreds of people welcomed the marchers and joined them in their walk for justice, peace and truth about enforced-disappearances. Qadeer Baloch and Farzana Majeed addressed the crowd and explained the situation of Balochistan to them. They told the people of Noorpur that they were marching against extra judicial killings and abductions in Balochistan. Qadeer Baloch said enforced disappearances are a common issue in Sindh and Balochistan. Both nations should unite against human rights violations and extra-judicial arrest and killing of Baloch and Sindhi youth. Farzana Baloch and Qadeer Baloch also thanked the people of Noorpur and Sindh for their encouragement, support and cooperation. Yet another huge crowd of residents of Nagoshamori and activists of PPP Shaheed Bhutto group welcome #VBMPLongMarch near Naushahro Feroze city of Sindh. The Sindh United Party and JSQM Bashir Qureshi group activists also were among those who welcomed Voice for Baloch Missing Persons long march at different point on Thursday. Meanwhile Qadeer Baloch said that the governor of Sindh has ordered the IG of Sindh police not to provide security to the Baloch marchers. Qadeer Baloch told Baloch Warna News that: “We have been walking without any police security in last 4 days. A well-wisher within the Sindh police has informed me that the governor of Punjab has asked the governor of Sindh to stop the march from entering into Punjab. That’s why the Inspector General of Police has pulled off our security. Even though the security has always been inadequate as there were motely only two policemen who would show up whenever it suited them but now they have also stopped showing up.” He said his main concern was the heavy traffic on roads because they already narrowly escaped few dangerous accidents. He reiterated his warning that if anything happened to any of the marchers or members of public, the governments of Sindh and Punjab will be held responsible.
