“Global Watch | Balochistan and beyond: Pakistan Army’s state policy of forced disappearances and genocide”, First Post, January 4, 2024:

“Recently, Pakistan’s security establishment tried to shatter the clamour of Baloch protestors by charging on their protest site in the national capital of Islamabad on 21 December, 2023, even as hundreds were detained. Among the demonstrators were relatives, predominantly women and children, seeking the whereabouts of victims of enforced disappearance and alleged staged encounters orchestrated by Pakistani state security forces.

This was followed by masked men, believed to be from Islamabad police, raiding the protest site on the intervening night of 26 December to evict the protestors at gunpoint. This was the latest chapter in the distressing saga of the protestors, organised under Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), since 23 November, 2023, following the staged encounter of four Baloch youth in the Southern Turbat region.

With the increasing cases of forced disappearance and staged encounters, the BYC launched a march to Islamabad from Turbat to press their demands of halting extrajudicial killings by state agencies and holding the perpetrators accountable, on December 6, reaching Pakistan’s capital on December 20….”

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