33 Years and Counting 34 years is a long time. Its time enough to determine the overwhelming economic development for both the nations, a time enough to have revolutionised the corporate sector, a time enough to make economic and political reforms for a country that feeds a billion people, but 34 years seem less to the governments of the two countries to have taken appropriate action to repatriate the missing war heros from the 1971 Indo-Pak war.

In a single word, id term it nothing short of ``Inhumane``

Are we, the families of the missing ones expected to fill a cauldron with lame and paralysed excuses from the two governments? Is there no single person in the political scenario that can empathise with the 34 year long turmoil that each one is going through?

I urge the people of both countries to spend a while thinking about the nature of justice that is offered to us a civilians of a democratic and secular and integral nation. Is there no person in this world, is there no organisation in this world, is there no law in this world, and is there no government in this world that can resolve this issue. Where are the media, news, UN, Amnesty, Human Rights Organisations, Red Cross, and Geneva Conventions?

When there is war between two countries, there is enemity, but even enemies show respect. Id like to question the government asking them where is the respect that they have shown to their soldiers who have been missing since 34 years. If not for them, their lands would not be free, they would not be living the life that they are today, their families would not be able to move in a country that is free from war.

However, the price is paid not by the people who make the laws or the ones who are vested with the power to act and make decisions. It is the people on the warfront who sacrifice their lives, it is their families who suffer, and its people like us who fight a 34 years long endless battle for justice, for what is rightly ours.

There is still time for the government wake up to our shouts and endeavour to bring its people back, before they realise that they have no armies, navy and air force anymore to fight for their motherland.


More information about the facts and battles about the missing 54 can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/projectpow/