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Mehrang Baloch, central organizer of the Baloch Yakjahti Committee (BYC), said the enforced disappearances of Baloch women represent an alarming escalation in state violence. He alleged that enforced disappearances were now being used as an organized and gendered tactic.
Mehrang Baloch said that for decades the Baloch people have been seen as a suspicious and marginalized community, where instead of constitutional rights, a policy of fear, pressure and use of force has been adopted. He said that earlier enforced disappearances were mainly limited to Baloch men, but now its scope has been extended to women and girls. According to the report of The Balochistan Post, this situation is very worrying.
What did Mehrang Baloch say
He said victims of enforced disappearances also include girl students, minor girls, pregnant women and persons with disabilities, many of whom have no connection with any political activity. Mehrang Baloch stressed that this makes it clear that what was considered a security-related action for a long time, has now become a broader social and political one.
Mehrang Baloch alleged that Baloch women are being directly targeted so as to weaken the social foundation of resistance. She said that when women started searching for their missing relatives, protesting and asking questions of courts and state institutions, they faced repression.
Cases of forced disappearance are increasing
He also said that repression and identity-based violence do not lead to silence or surrender, but rather strengthen political consciousness, collective solidarity and resistance. According to The Balochistan Post, he termed the enforced disappearance of Baloch women as a systematic policy to control society through fear.
Meanwhile, on January 26, a leading human rights organization said that at least 10 civilians have been forcibly disappeared by Pakistani security forces amid increasing incidents of enforced disappearances in Balochistan. Condemning these incidents, Baloch National Movement’s human rights department ‘PANK’ said that Edo Baksh, a resident of Peer Koh in Dera Bugti district, was forcibly abducted by the soldiers of Pakistan’s Frontier Corps (FC) on January 24.
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