As per estimates of Rights Groups around 300 people have fallen victim to enforce disappearances since January 2009. During the last turbulent political situation around 100 people, mostly opposition activists, were picked up by plain-clothes people and victims families said they identified them as members of law enforcement agencies. But law enforcers have equally denied the blame making the disappearance cases mysterious when the fate of the missing people remained undetected.
The Home Minister on Sunday said there is no word like ‘enforced disappearance’ in the country and he believes anyone claimed to be missing by families is rather hiding themselves for other reasons. We must say this is really a very critical issue but the point is that whether they are killed, detained or hiding, it is the responsibility of the state to make their whereabouts known to their families. It appears that the government is not ready to take this responsibility blaming the victims to be in self-imposed hiding.
No government having any accountability can take this issue of life and death so lightheartedly.
If the government has no other answer for the missing ones then the government has to accept the responsibility.
It is certainly a matter of grave concern that police are busy in protecting VIPs and not the people though all expenses are borne by the people.
