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Families of missing Baluch march for justice
Relatives of people who have been disappeared or killed in Pakistan march more than 2,000km seeking UN intervention. - Al Jazeera, 28 February 2014
More than 2,150km away, in fact - that's how much ground he and a small group of others, mostly women and children, have covered by foot since they began their long march on October 27 from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province. They are due to finish their journey on Friday with their arrival in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
Rekhi, known almost ubiquitously as "Mama" (Urdu for "uncle"), and his 15 fellow marchers are protesting against the enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of their family members in Balochistan, a province where Pakistani security forces have been battling an armed Baluch separatist movement since 2005.
Rekhi's son, Jalil, was the information secretary of the Baluch Republican Party (BRP), a separatist political party with strong ties to the armed struggle for Baluch independence. He was abducted from his home in Quetta in February 2009.
Read the full article here: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/02/families-missing-baloch-march-justice-2014227101949360898.html