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The appearance of abandoned corpses on the rooftop of #Nishtarhospital Multan is alarming & requires a thorough but honest investigation.
1- Not necessarily they are Baloch! But #Baloch concerns are genuine because there is a history of killing & dumping. Watch this video.
It began with Asad Mengal, brother of @sakhtarmengal, in Feb 1976. Still, nobody knows where he is. Alive or dead? Some say he died during interrogation in Kashmir & others say he was buried in Thatta, Sindh after being killed. Still, today the family does not know.
3- Then in 2000, when the fifth insurgency broke, dozens of activists were killed & dumped thousands of km away from their hometowns.
#Balochistan has a vast territory. Kidnapping someone in Dera Bugti, Quetta and throwing his body in Chaman or Makran was normal.
4- Change in practice:
The practice changed when public outcried, and pressure was built by the rights bodies. The new normal was to kidnap rights activists, journalists, and separatists from #Balochistan and throw their dead bodies in Sindh. The same was happening in Karachi
5- The same reversed. Sindhi activists were kidnapped from Sindh or #Balochistan towns near Karachi, and their bodies were dumped thousands of km away, as far as near the Iran border in Makran. Also, some Sindhi activists' bullet-riddled bodies were found in Punjab, for example.
6- So, kidnapping and dumping dead bodies thousands of kilometers and dumping them in remote areas within or out of province is an old modus operandi of intelligence agencies.
However, the practice has been changing with time. It is due to the media & civil society's attention.
7-But the recovery of mysterious bodies in Punjab is alarming. It is the second incident this year. Earlier, hundreds of abandoned bodies were found in Lahore, as Edhi reported. No institution investigated who they were.
8- If recovery of abandoned bodies had been appropriately examined, the #Nishtarhospital saga wouldn't have concerned the #Baloch activists.
I repeat, the bodies found in Multan are not necessarily of #BalochMissingPersons. But the way they’re dumped alarm Baloch.
9- Still, it doesn't make sense to say the dead were kept in the hospital for medical students.
Do Medic students examine bodies with clothes? Are dead kept on the rooftop of hospital for drying purposes? Why before such corpses haven’t been spotted if it’s a normal practice?
10- Thus, a proper and honest investigation matching the standard practice of examining the dead can only be trusted. Mere saying that they were kept for educational purposes does not make sense. Why didn't then the hospital say this before & saying it now?
11- There is a proper protocol for keeping dead bodies in the hospital for study purposes.
It's the state's responsibility to carry out a proper medical examination & satisfy the missing persons’ families.
#NishtarHospital #Baloch #Balochistan #MISSINGPERSON #End #Thread
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