پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق نے انڈونیشیا میں کشتی الٹنے کے نتیجے میں کوئٹہ کی ہزارہ برادری کے کم از کم پچپن نوجوانوں کی موت پر گہرے دکھ کا اظہار کیا ہے اور حکومت سے مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ ان افراد کے خلاف کارروائی کی جائے جنہوں نے ان نوجوانوں کو غیرقانونی طور پر کشتی پر سوار کرایا۔
حقوق انسانی کمیشن کی جانب سے جاری ہونے والے ایک بیان میں کہا گیا ہے کہ حادثہ کا شکار ہونے والی کشتی میں پچپن افراد سوار تھے جن میں ایک سو ستّر پاکستانی شہری تھے۔
اسی بارے میں
انڈونیشیا سانحہ: پچپن افراد کا تعلق کوئٹہ سے
انسانی حقوق کمیشن نے حکام سے مطالبہ کیا ہے کہ وہ مرنے اور زندہ بچ جانے والے مسافروں سے متعلق معلومات کے حصول میں ان کے اہل خانہ کی فوری مدد کریں اور ان وجوہات کا سدباب کریں جن کے باعث ہزارہ کمیونٹی کے افراد اپنی زندگی خطرے میں ڈالتے ہوئے پاکستان چھوڑنے پر مجبور ہوئے۔
انسانی حقوق کمیشن کے مطابق’ہزارہ کمیونٹی کے نوجوانوں نے جس طرح سنگین خطرہ مول لیتے ہوئے پاکستان چھوڑنے کا فیصلہ کیا، اس سے بلوچستان میں ان پر ڈھائے جانے والے مظالم کی شدت کا اندازہ لگایا جا سکتا ہے۔‘
تنظیم کے مطابق دیگر مسافروں جن کا تعلق بلوچستان سے تھا، بیروزگار تھے اور اپنے حالات بہتر کرنے کی کوشش میں ملک چھوڑ رہے ہیں اور چند تاجر جو صوبے، بالخصوص کوئٹہ میں اغواء برائے تاوان کے بڑھتے ہوئے واقعات کے نتیجے میں یہاں خود کو غیر محفوظ تصور کرتے ہیں۔
بلوچستان کے حالات
"ہزارہ کمیونٹی کے نوجوانوں نے جس طرح سنگین خطرہ مول لیتے ہوئے پاکستان چھوڑنے کا فیصلہ کیا، اس سے بلوچستان میں ان پر ڈھائے جانے والے مظالم کی شدت کا اندازہ لگایا جا سکتا ہے"
ایچ آر سی پی
انسانی حقوق کمیشن کا کہنا ہے کہ کشتی کے عملے نے تقریباً ایک سو ستّر پاکستانیوں اور دیگر ممالک کے اسّی افراد کو اس وقت بے یارو مددگار چھوڑ دیا جب کشتی ایک شدید طوفان میں الٹ گئی۔
اس واقعے میں ہزارہ کمیونٹی کے کم از کم پچپن افراد ہلاک اور دیگر درجنوں پاکستانی لاپتہ ہیں۔
کمیشن نے اپنے بیان میں کہا ’حکومت، بلوچستان کے معاملات پر سنجیدگی سے تفصیلی نظر ڈالے اور ان اسباب کا خاتمہ کرے جن کے باعث نوجوان ظلم، عدم تحفظ ارو غربت سے بچنے کے لیے سنگین خطرات مول لے کر وطن چھوڑنے پر مجبور رہے ہیں۔‘
تنظیم کے مطابق حکومت کو ان لوگوں کی بھی شناخت کر کے ان کے خلاف قانونی کارروائی کرنی چاہیے جنہوں نے کشتی پر سوار مسافروں کو غیر قانونی طریقے سے بین الاقوامی سرحدیں پار کروائیں اور ان کی موت کا سبب بنے۔
’تمام شہریوں کی زندگی کو تحفظ فراہم کرنے کے لیے اپنے فرض کا ادارک کرتے ہوئے، حکومت کو فی الفور ہزارہ برادری پر ہونے والے ظلم کے سدباب کی راہیں بھی نکالنی چاہیے۔‘
اس کے علاوہ تنظیم نے متاثرہ خاندانوں سے اظہار ہمدردی کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ اس حقیقت سے قطع نظر کہ انڈونیشیا کے سمندر میں یہ نوجوان کیسے پہنچے، حکومت کو فوری طور پر متاثرہ خاندانوں کو اپنے پیاروں سے متعلق معلومات کی فراہمی ممکن بنانی چاہیے جب کہ زندہ بچ جانے والوں کی مدد کرنی چاہیے اور لاشوں کو وطن واپس لانے کا انتظام کرنا چاہیے۔
BBC URDU
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Uncertain endgame in Afghanistan
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TO the anxious question of what will happen to Afghanistan when foreign troops leave in 2014, Dr Abdul Qayum Mohmand had an unexpected answer. "Nothing will happen," the former University of Afghanistan assistant professor said. "Because nothing is happening now."...Continue Reading...
HRCP demands govt action after Indonesia boat tragedy
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed deep sorrow at the death of at least 55 young men from Quetta’s Hazara community when a boat carrying around 250 people, 170 of them from Pakistan, capsized off Indonesia.
HRCP has called upon Islamabad to help the families learn about the fate of the passengers as well as urgently address reasons that force Hazaras and other people from Balochistan to leave Pakistan even in the face of grave danger to their lives.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the commission said, “Pakistani passengers from Balochistan were believed to be unemployed young men looking for a way to improve their life as well as businessmen who felt insecure amid growing incidents of kidnappings for ransom in the province, particularly in Quetta. HRCP sympathises with the bereaved families and would investigate the matter further.”
The statement read, “HRCP also calls upon the government to take a long hard look at the state of affairs in Balochistan and reflect on the reasons that compel young men to take such grave risks in order to escape persecution, insecurity and poverty. The government must also identify and punish those who contributed to the death of the boat’s passengers by illegally ferrying them across borders.” pr
Daily Times
HRCP has called upon Islamabad to help the families learn about the fate of the passengers as well as urgently address reasons that force Hazaras and other people from Balochistan to leave Pakistan even in the face of grave danger to their lives.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the commission said, “Pakistani passengers from Balochistan were believed to be unemployed young men looking for a way to improve their life as well as businessmen who felt insecure amid growing incidents of kidnappings for ransom in the province, particularly in Quetta. HRCP sympathises with the bereaved families and would investigate the matter further.”
The statement read, “HRCP also calls upon the government to take a long hard look at the state of affairs in Balochistan and reflect on the reasons that compel young men to take such grave risks in order to escape persecution, insecurity and poverty. The government must also identify and punish those who contributed to the death of the boat’s passengers by illegally ferrying them across borders.” pr
Daily Times
More may have survived asylum tragedy
Tom Allard and Kirsty Needham
December 20, 2011 - 5:04PM
The first rescued asylum seekers were taken to East Java, Indonesia. Now officials are investigating whether more people survived. Photo: AP
Hopes have been raised that another, large group of asylum seekers may have survived the tragic sinking of a people smuggling vessel three days ago and are sheltering on an island off the coast.
Police are taking seriously the information that an asylum seeker called his family in Pakistan late yesterday, saying he was with the group of people, some of whom were injured.
Armaghan Haider, an Afghan survivor of the disaster, said the news provoked a wave of optimism among survivors staying at the Grand Mansion hotel in Blitar, especially as it came just after 13 people were discovered yesterday on another island, Nusa Barung, some 200 kilometres from where the vessel laden with about 250 asylum seekers capsized on Saturday.
At least 47 people on the boat are now confirmed to have survived.
Mr Haider said the man who contacted his family was named Farhan, and urged them to get in contact with Indonesian authorities.
"He was not among the 13 people," said Mr Haider. "He called his family and told [them] that 'I'm safe. Among me is a lot of people who are safe. We are trapped on some island. I don't know where it is. My neck, my hand, my nose, everything is broken but a lot of people are still alive in this island'."
The information could not be independently verified. The Indonesian mobile phone number that Farhan' gave his family was out of range or switched off when called by Fairfax.
However, a police source said the information is being followed up with the utmost urgency. A Jakarta-based refugee advocate who knows many of those on the boat also confirmed that the information was relayed to him last night.
Two Indonesian men, believed to be crew of the vessel, were also found on a beach in East Java yesterday. They are in a hospital in Malang and being interviewed by police. It is understood they claim they are just fishermen who were tossed from a small boat.
However, police are treating their denials with scepticism.
In Australia, the asylum seeker issue took another political turn, with Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison today rejecting accusations by the federal government that the Coalition is unwilling to sit down and negotiate on offshore processing.
"At no stage has the Coalition rejected any discussions, but there must be something to talk about," Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney.
His press conference was hurriedly convened after immigration minister Chris Bowen earlier launched a broadside attack on the Coalition's refusal to meet to negotiate on border protection policy.
Releasing a trail of letters between the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, written in the week leading up to the most recent boat disaster, Mr Bowen said the federal government had warned that the worsening weather was increasing the risk to life at sea - and an offshore processing policy was needed to prevent another tragedy at sea and deter boat arrivals.
Mr Bowen said: "I don't believe the situation is acceptable to the Australian people. In fact I believe the Australian people have had a gutful of the politicking."
Ms Gillard had offered to recall parliament to pass legislation that had been stymied by the Opposition's refusal to support the Malaysia refugee swap, but a meeting had been repeatedly rebuffed by Mr Abbott in his replies, Mr Bowen said.
However, Mr Morrison said Mr Bowen had misconstrued the letters and it was the federal government that had been saying "no" on the issue by refusing to consider adopting elements of the Coalition's decade-old border protection policy.
"This government said no to temporary protection visas ... said no to turning boats back ... and also said no to amendments that would allow offshore processing," Mr Morrison said.
He repeated his comments of yesterday, that Mr Abbott wanted to see a specific proposal from the government in writing.
"The Coalition will accept any proposal from the government in strict confidence," he said.
Mr Bowen said the letters received from Mr Abbott, the most recent one sent last night, had stated that fresh meetings on the issue were "pointless".
"I don't believe there is anything pointless about meeting to try to save lives," Mr Bowen said.
The Coalition is refusing to allow legislation that would enable the federal government to send asylum seekers to Malaysia in a refugee "swap", and instead supports establishing an offshore processing centre on Nauru - which was the Howard government's policy.
Mr Bowen said an offshore processing centre, which the government wants located on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, wouldn't work to deter boats unless it was accompanied by the Malaysia arrangement.
smh
December 20, 2011 - 5:04PM
Hopes have been raised that another, large group of asylum seekers may have survived the tragic sinking of a people smuggling vessel three days ago and are sheltering on an island off the coast.
Police are taking seriously the information that an asylum seeker called his family in Pakistan late yesterday, saying he was with the group of people, some of whom were injured.
Armaghan Haider, an Afghan survivor of the disaster, said the news provoked a wave of optimism among survivors staying at the Grand Mansion hotel in Blitar, especially as it came just after 13 people were discovered yesterday on another island, Nusa Barung, some 200 kilometres from where the vessel laden with about 250 asylum seekers capsized on Saturday.
At least 47 people on the boat are now confirmed to have survived.
Mr Haider said the man who contacted his family was named Farhan, and urged them to get in contact with Indonesian authorities.
"He was not among the 13 people," said Mr Haider. "He called his family and told [them] that 'I'm safe. Among me is a lot of people who are safe. We are trapped on some island. I don't know where it is. My neck, my hand, my nose, everything is broken but a lot of people are still alive in this island'."
The information could not be independently verified. The Indonesian mobile phone number that Farhan' gave his family was out of range or switched off when called by Fairfax.
However, a police source said the information is being followed up with the utmost urgency. A Jakarta-based refugee advocate who knows many of those on the boat also confirmed that the information was relayed to him last night.
Two Indonesian men, believed to be crew of the vessel, were also found on a beach in East Java yesterday. They are in a hospital in Malang and being interviewed by police. It is understood they claim they are just fishermen who were tossed from a small boat.
However, police are treating their denials with scepticism.
In Australia, the asylum seeker issue took another political turn, with Opposition immigration spokesman Scott Morrison today rejecting accusations by the federal government that the Coalition is unwilling to sit down and negotiate on offshore processing.
"At no stage has the Coalition rejected any discussions, but there must be something to talk about," Mr Morrison told reporters in Sydney.
His press conference was hurriedly convened after immigration minister Chris Bowen earlier launched a broadside attack on the Coalition's refusal to meet to negotiate on border protection policy.
Releasing a trail of letters between the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and the Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, written in the week leading up to the most recent boat disaster, Mr Bowen said the federal government had warned that the worsening weather was increasing the risk to life at sea - and an offshore processing policy was needed to prevent another tragedy at sea and deter boat arrivals.
Mr Bowen said: "I don't believe the situation is acceptable to the Australian people. In fact I believe the Australian people have had a gutful of the politicking."
Ms Gillard had offered to recall parliament to pass legislation that had been stymied by the Opposition's refusal to support the Malaysia refugee swap, but a meeting had been repeatedly rebuffed by Mr Abbott in his replies, Mr Bowen said.
However, Mr Morrison said Mr Bowen had misconstrued the letters and it was the federal government that had been saying "no" on the issue by refusing to consider adopting elements of the Coalition's decade-old border protection policy.
"This government said no to temporary protection visas ... said no to turning boats back ... and also said no to amendments that would allow offshore processing," Mr Morrison said.
He repeated his comments of yesterday, that Mr Abbott wanted to see a specific proposal from the government in writing.
"The Coalition will accept any proposal from the government in strict confidence," he said.
Mr Bowen said the letters received from Mr Abbott, the most recent one sent last night, had stated that fresh meetings on the issue were "pointless".
"I don't believe there is anything pointless about meeting to try to save lives," Mr Bowen said.
The Coalition is refusing to allow legislation that would enable the federal government to send asylum seekers to Malaysia in a refugee "swap", and instead supports establishing an offshore processing centre on Nauru - which was the Howard government's policy.
Mr Bowen said an offshore processing centre, which the government wants located on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, wouldn't work to deter boats unless it was accompanied by the Malaysia arrangement.
smh
NYT; Indonesia: Crew Abandoned Passengers, Survivors Say
By REUTERS
Published: December 20, 2011
The crew and captain of an Indonesian boat packed with illegal immigrants grabbed life vests and swam away as it sank in a heavy storm, leaving more than 200 passengers missing, Australian news media reported on Monday. Surviving asylum seekers said passengers on the boat, which was heading for Australia, were left to drown as it broke apart in stormy seas about 55 miles off the coast of Java, Indonesia. “The captain and six crew took the life vests and started swimming away,” a Pakistani survivor, Saed Mohammad Zia, 18, told The Daily Telegraph of Sydney. Indonesian officials said 34 people were dead and 217 missing. An official of Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said that survivors were moved to an immigration office and that he did not know whether they would be deported.
New York Times
Published: December 20, 2011
The crew and captain of an Indonesian boat packed with illegal immigrants grabbed life vests and swam away as it sank in a heavy storm, leaving more than 200 passengers missing, Australian news media reported on Monday. Surviving asylum seekers said passengers on the boat, which was heading for Australia, were left to drown as it broke apart in stormy seas about 55 miles off the coast of Java, Indonesia. “The captain and six crew took the life vests and started swimming away,” a Pakistani survivor, Saed Mohammad Zia, 18, told The Daily Telegraph of Sydney. Indonesian officials said 34 people were dead and 217 missing. An official of Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said that survivors were moved to an immigration office and that he did not know whether they would be deported.
New York Times
Survivors recall horror of Indonesia boat disaster
By Cucuk Tonartono (AFP)
LUMAJANG, Indonesia — From their hospital beds, shocked migrants on Tuesday recounted the horror of spending three days in violent seas clinging to wreckage after their overloaded boat sank off Indonesia, en route to Australia. Seventeen-year-old Afghan student Samin Gul Afghani broke down in tears as he described seeing his uncle and two younger brothers sink exhausted under the waters. Afghani, one of 13 survivors found Monday 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Saturday's capsize, recalled seeing dozens of fellow migrants drowning as they waited in vain to be rescued...Continue Reading...
LUMAJANG, Indonesia — From their hospital beds, shocked migrants on Tuesday recounted the horror of spending three days in violent seas clinging to wreckage after their overloaded boat sank off Indonesia, en route to Australia. Seventeen-year-old Afghan student Samin Gul Afghani broke down in tears as he described seeing his uncle and two younger brothers sink exhausted under the waters. Afghani, one of 13 survivors found Monday 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Saturday's capsize, recalled seeing dozens of fellow migrants drowning as they waited in vain to be rescued...Continue Reading...
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