Quetta, Pakistan: Eleven coal miners were killed in Pakistan in the past. All of those killed in this brutal massacre belonged to the Hazara community, who were Shia Muslims. The relatives of the workers, who were hurt by the incident, have refused to bury the dead bodies. At the same time, they continued their sit-in with the bodies of the victims on the western bypass of Balochistan demanding the Balochistan government to either arrest the killers or resign.
Dawn has published the statement of Masoama Yakoba Ali, a third-year student. He lost five members of his family in this massacre. He said, “No male member survives in our family to bury my elder brother and four other relatives.”
“We have staged a sit-in for the protection of the Hazara people who have been facing such killings since long and have become fed up with the situation,” Dawn quoted Syed Agha Raza, Balochistan Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) President.
The bodies would not be buried until demands of the community are not fulfilled, Agha Raza said.
Seeking the government’s resignation, Agha Raza said that the Balochistan government has repeatedly failed to protect the people of the Hazara community. “We will continue the protest till the resignation of the provincial government,” said Agha Raza.
He further said that a judicial commission consisting of retired and sitting judges of the apex court should be appointed to conduct a judicial inquiry into the incident.
As per the Geo News, police said the armed men took the coal miners to nearby mountains and opened fire. Eleven were confirmed dead by police while others injured were reported to be in critical condition.