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Conflict in Balochistan 26 On development issues, the DCO said that the government had already allocated a sum of Rs.l billion for the building of cantonments in Sui. Half of this amount had already been sanctioned. He gave documents with plans of shifting the town of Sui to a new location, to be named Sohriabad. It is planned to be located in Tilli Mat, near the headquarters of Union Council Gandoi. The thirty thousand residents of Sui are planned to be shifted to this new location, while the cantonment and the compound of Pakistan Petroleum Limited will remain in Sui. Upon inquiry, the DCO authoritatively claimed knowledge that the rape of Dr. Shazia had taken place, but, according to him, the rapists were Bugtis. He later disclosed that Dr Hanif Bugti, a pathologist working at the PPL, was whisked away by an intelligence agency. According to him, while Dr Bugti was on duty, a white-coloured Datsun came and took him away, on suspicion of being involved in the Dr Shazia case. Dr Bugti’s wife is also employed at the same place. The DSP of Rojhan also expressed his bitterness against the Bugtis. He blamed them for disturbing the peace of Caption his area, which falls in Punjab and is located around fifty kilometers away from Sui. According to him, the Bugtis were primitive, violent, and “only bathed once a year.” Observations made in Sui The gas pipeline runs for miles from and around Sui. It is mostly exposed and unattended, as guarding it physically would be impossible. There are credible reports of attacks on the pipelines and other installations. Government sources report 15 such incidents took place until December 2005. The local population, however, corrected the impression that the Bugti tribe was all out to destroy the installations. Some incidents had occurred but, according to their version, these were overblown. They pointed out that for many years they had protected the pipelines, without any hurdles and that their income comes from that very source. They said that only extreme desperation could lead to the destruction of gas installations. HRCP hopes that the confrontation never reaches such a stage. Contrary to the impression given by the DCO, the team found the local population hostile to the military. The team received an extraordinary reception by hundreds of people, including children. Alarge number, also came out of their houses spontaneously to meet the team. All shops and businesses of the town were closed. Independent sources confirmed that business had come to a halt since December 30 th 2005, after apprehensions of even worse violence by the Frontier Corps. Local people told the team that along with the troop movements, a house-to-house search was conducted in Sui. An already tense situation was further aggravated, as hundreds of people from Dera Bugti started to move to Sui. The HRCP team met a large number of displaced persons, who were residents of the town of Dera Bugti and had now moved to Sui or were in transit. The people that the team met complained bitterly about the treatment meted out to them by the security forces. Members of the team had spread themselves out, to enable them to hear all versions of the events. A number of passersby and children were also interviewed in groups and individually. They all wanted hostilities to end and the security forces removed to a distance. In other words, a demilitarization of the district. They were numerous complaints against the security forces, particularly of brutal behaviour, even towards children. The team saw marks of bullets on school buildings, homes and shops. The locals were terrified and angry. They asked the team if their own army even considered them citizens. They gave evidence that gun-ships, helicopters and fighter jets were used to bombard Dera Bugti. They complained that their children had gone crazy, due to fear. They accused the government of meting out collective punishment to the Baloch for the rocket launcher
HRCP fact-finding missions’ report 27 attacks during President Musharraf’s visit. They asked whether Karachi or Islamabad was bombed after the attacks on the President and Prime Minister, from which they escaped narrowly. They refuted the argument that the FC was there to protect gas installations, by pointing out there were no such installations in Dera Bugti, yet the FC was fully entrenched in the town. The team later saw the situation first hand. The FC has numerous ‘morchas’ and check posts, and in fact a picket of the FC is based on a hill overlooking the residential quarters of Nawb Akbar Bugti. There were a number of allegations made of abuses committed by the security forces against unarmed civilian. The HRCP could not verify all such complaints because of the large number of such allegations, but some credible information is being documented. As regards the extra-judicial killings of non-combatants in Dera Bugti by the security forces on March 17 th 2005, HRCP received evidence that at least 43 non combatants were killed by indiscriminate and excessive use of force ofthe security forces. The list of victims is given below: List of Hindus killed on March 17th, 2005 at Dera Bugti Sr.# Children’s name and parentage Age Asma with Bugti children in the streets of Sui. 1. AttiDivid/oBachaMal One & half years 2. Quvita Devi d/o Dewan Chand 3 years 3. Sarkasha Devi d/o Saroon Kumar Two & half years 4. Amar Devi d/o Rajes Kumar One & half years 5. Deepak Kumar s/o Narenjan Kumar One & half years 6. Vicky Kumar s/o Tara Kumar One & half years 7. Ajeet Kumar s/o Vicky Kumar 2 Years 8. Washal s/o Manoher Lai Five & half years 9. Raveet s/o Manoher Lai Two & half years 10. Rekha Devi d/o Rukan Chand 5 years 11. Ameer Chand s/o Rukhan Chand 2 years 12. Sant Kumar s/o Nand Lai 5 years 13. Sangeeta Davi d/o Nand Lai 3 years 14. Narmeeta Devi d/o Moti Lai 7 years 15. Vikram s/o Sant Lai 9 years 16. Barkha Devi d/o Luchhman Singh 3 years 17. Ramesh Kumar s/o Preetam Kumar lyear 18. Ravi Kumar s/o Ramesh Lai 5 years 19. Ameet Kumar s/o Dewan Chand 16 years
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