
𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐚𝐫 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜
𝑳𝒂𝒘 𝑬𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑨𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑩𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒉 (𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏) 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒍 𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆
Balochistan is the center of human rights abuses, particularly, for last two decades, where enforced disappearances, extrajudicial murders, indiscriminate firing on civilians and various other political, social, economic and cultural rights are violated without any accountability. What is even more concerning is the direct involvement of the law enforcement agencies behind all those illegal acts and, unfortunately, they are never held accountable for what is wrong and what has been made a common practice in Balochistan.
Last night (April 1-2), the security personnel opened indiscriminate firing on a family, executing three, including a spouse and their daughter, and injuring another three persons in Cheeri Malaar area of Awaran. The deceased have been identified as Mohammad Umar, his wife Faiza Baloch and their daughter Mahzaib. While another woman of the same family, identified as Fehmeeda, is among the three injured ones. Such incidents have become a routine where the Baloch civilians are treated as third-grade citizens and their human-rights-violators/murderers are never questioned. Despite eye witnesses, the cases remained in the dust of ignorance, while the judiciary is equally silent of all the cases irrespective of the fact that such incidents are as visible as sun – to the government, to the judiciary and to the Baloch civilians.
On account of Baloch Women Forum (BWF), we denounce every act that tends to breach the laws of the land, no matter who the actors are – if the ones suffering are innocent civilians. Presently, the law enforcement agencies, as we have been observing and recording, are the direct violators of the indigenous people’s rights. The Awaran’s Cheeri Malaar incident must be probed impartially and those involved in the heinous crime must be reduced to exemplary punishment.
𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧,
𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐡 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦

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