Pakistan: Immature women kept in military torment cells and squeezed into sexual thralldom

January 12, 2009
Pakistan: Immature women maintained in military torment cells and coerced into sexual thralldom

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AHRC-STM-012-2009
January 12, 2009

A Statement by the Asiatic Homo Rights Committee

Ms. Zarina Marri, a 23-year-old schoolteacher from Balochistan state, was collar in late 2005, and holds been kept incommunicado in an army anguish cell at Karachi, the capital of Sindh state. She holds been repeatedly dishonour by the officer and is being employed as a sex slave, to induce apprehended patriot militants to subscribe state-concocted confessions.

One man, who was nabbed by a province bureau and maintained in military anguish cell about for nine months, narrated the tale of this fille to Newspersons Without Delimitations ( Reporters Sans Frontires, RSF );nowpublic.com; the International Redness Cross; and at Woolwich Judicature in London. The current whereabouts of the girl are not cognized. It holds been maintained that women who are contending for the greater liberty of Balochistan are being apprehended by the province authorities and being squeezed into sex thrall in their detention.

Mr. Munir Mengal, the negociating manager of a Balochi-language tv channel, was apprehended on Apr 4, 2006 from Karachi International aerodrome by the province intelligence service and transferred to a military torment cell in Karachi for nine months ( HTTP://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2006/1666/ ). He narrated the tale of the forced sex thrall of the immature instructor Zarina Marri whom he met in a military cell. According to the Reporters Without Borders ( RSF ) Mr. Munir Mengal witnessed many human rights misdemeanors therein military prison. Mengal tells that, `` a immature Balochi woman, Ms Zarina Marri, was employed as a sexual slave by the officers. They even once threw her bare into my cell. I maked not cognise what holded passed to this mother of a home who was nailed by the army in our state. ''

Another Baluchi patriot ( name omitted by petition ), who was apprehended by the military intelligence twice and maintained in military cells in different metropolises, holds corroborated to the AHRC that there were immature Balochi females seen at those two torment cells, nude and in hurt. The striking Balochi patriot leaders state that they cognise fact that immature Balochi women are being collar, either during or after protestation presentments on the disappearings and are losing. They likewise cognize about the women are sexually mistreated in the military detainment but they can not tell so publicly because of their holiness and torment of their menages.

Mister Munir Mengal was too excruciated and his members was severely wounded when he declined to make out with Zarina Marri. He sayed RSF, `` on Twenty-seventh Jan, 2007 at 6 post-mortem Major Iqrar Gul Niazi ( Military Intelligence ) named me in his office and exhibited me some naked pictures, and laughingly sayed me that you hold been a manager of a Television channel so certainly you hold good dealings with actresses. ''

When he returned to his cell he chance erotica pictures strewn ended it. Around 12 necropsy a low-ranking officer named Subedar conveyed a female there. She was trembling and crying. `` He threw her on my body and stated me, You cognize what to make with her. You are not a tike we should state what to make withher. ' '' Mr. Mengal states after half an hr the officer returned, and seeing them sitting apart, mistreated them and forcibly took away their dresses. Mengal stated he was stupefied when the woman started praying in the Baluchi language. She stated Mengal her name was Zarina Marri and that she belongs to the Kohlu country, headquarters of the Reb Marri folk, a scene of a bloody insurgence that commenced in 2005. She told she was a schoolteacher and that the army forces holded nobble her along with her one-year-old.

`` They impeach us for espying for the Baluchistan Freeing Army, '' Zarina Marri stated. She implored Mengal to kill her. `` I hold been undressed several times for them. ''

Mengal stated on the refusal to jazz, the intelligence functionaries visited cuts on his genitals. `` I considered I would lose my manhood, '' he told. Ms. Zarina sayed to Mengal that she holds seen some females in the anguish cell but was not permited to speak with them.

At the clip of this incident Colonel Raza of the Pakistani Army was in charge of that cell. After a couple of years he was transferred to Rawalpindi, Punjab state and Colonel Abdul Malik Kashmiri came as caput of the military anguish cell.

Mr Munir Mengal was relinquished from the military anguish cell on Fourth Aug 2007 and was maintained in a civilian poky on August 5th. The International Commission of the Redness Cross ( ICRC ) representatives seed him in Khuzadar poky, where he furnished them with a elaborate briefing which they indited downward. The following day their MD besides checked the injured constituent of his phalluses. Mister Andrew Barterlays, the officer of ICRC who seed Mr Mengal several times in slammer, stated Mr. Mengal that until he was out of hold the ICRC could not take upwards the issue of Zarina Marri, because both their lives would be menaced.

The Asiatic Man Rights Committee holds already described that 52 anguish cells are run by the Pakistan army, delight see following nexus ( HTTP://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2008statements/1574/ ), Karachi was told to hold three military torment cells. The testimony by Mr Munir Mengal holds revealed the most flagitious methods of army anguish, employing immature women as sex slaves to induce political oppositions to subscribe the government-concocted confessions of terrorist and anti-state activity.

The AHRC severely excoriates the utilization of women as sex slaves by the Pakistan army and for holding these women incommunicado. Pakistan is the signer to Convention on the Riddance of All Forms Favoritism against Women ( CEDAW ) but women are being applied as sex slaves in a gross misdemeanour of the Convention by army officers.

The AHRC exhorts the regime of Pakistan to now maintain a judicial probe into the women detainees being utilized as sex slaves by the army officers in their custody middles, and to nab all the army officers posted in the anguish cells; both in Karachi and in the balance of Pakistan. The culprits of these flagitious offense must be conveyed before the jurisprudence. The regime should determine the whereabouts of the women apprehended from Balochistan state who hold vanished after their catch, including Zarina Marri. It is the obligation of the regime to seek for the losing individuals taken by Province intelligence service, who hold maintained them in anguish cells for many eld.

Pakistan proudly names itself the Islamic Democratic Province but its swayers look to miss the braveness to take its ain military into cheque. It is a military that prosecutes in torment and some of the most flagitious methods of interrupting the spirit of those that it reckons the enemy, it is a military that pays no attentiveness to the norms of civilized behavior and is one that, if not bring around book will convert Pakistan into a uncivilized province.

About AHRC: The Asian Man Rights Committee is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights offering in Asia. The Hong Kong-based grouping was launched in 1984.

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