Protesters gathered outside Karachis Frere Hall on August to mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances . They marched to the Karachi Press Club KPC where activists and family members delivered speeches describing the cruelty of enforced disappearances .
Sammi Deen Baloch has been tirelessly campaigning for the return of her father Dr Deen Muhammad Baloch since he went missing on June . For these families navigating the legal and political labyrinth in the country in search of their loved ones is like walking through a revolving door they end up exactly where they started leaving without what they came for in the first place .
For them death is not the worst tragedy to befall their families. Living this painful reality is. Hopelessness. Families destroyed Remembrance. We are dead when you kidnap one person you end up destroying their whole family. It is an issue for the whole nation said Qazi Khizar Habib vice chairperson of the Sindh chapter of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan HRCP.
The HRCP had organised the event at Frere hall and later at Karachi Press club KPC in conjunction with other human rights groups. For them they had laid out posters personal belongings and even school certificates of young children were laid out on the steps of the steps .
Meroz joined her mother and older sister Saeeda Baloch at the rally holding up a poster of her missing father. Sammi Baloch. Meroza Baloch . The Baloch family. She said: ‘We don’t even know if we’ve been kidnapped. We have no happiness anymore. We’re not happy anymore.
My mother has no happiness.
