The annual United Nations "International Day of the Disappeared" was marked by a seminar on "disappeared" persons moderated by Ms. Humaira Rahman. Participants talked about the plight of missing persons, presumed capture and imprisonment of dissidents, and efforts to highlight the scope of the problem. They also talked about their experience in various regions and the activities they witnessed. Mr. Smith lived and worked in Argentina during the "dirty war" when many people were "disappeared". Mr. Mirani reported on the situation of disappearances and the condition of missing activists’ families among the people of Sindh in southeastern Pakistan.
The seminar mostly focused on Sindhi and Balochi victims of the enforced disappearance was held in Canon House Building in Washington DC on August 30, 2007. The seminar was sponsored by the World Sindhi Institute (WSI) and United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA). It was a well-attended seminar and attended by several US House staff members and held on the occasion of United Nations "International Day of the Disappeared". Although, the focus of the seminar was "enforced disappearance" in the entire world, much of the discussion concentrated on Sindh, Balochistan, and rest of Pakistan. If missed the C-SPAN2 broadcast on Friday, you can still get hold of the video by visiting C-SPAN site:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=200774-1&tID=5 |
