Following text has been taken from the “Justice for Mughees and Muneeb” facebook page
We created this page on 20th August 2010. When we created this page, we intended to bring awareness about the Sialkot incident and motivate people to raise their voices against it. As the time passed, this forum became a source of hope for many members, a source of pride about the fact that there are still some people out there who are fighting for justice in this corrupted society. We felt obliged to live to the expectations of all the members, we spent our days and nights on this page replying to each and every post on this page, and replying to every email we received. There were thousands of you out there who posted on this wall asking for updates, or just sharing what you felt about this incident, and we tried our level best to keep everyone’s spirits up. There were only four of us who were 24/7 active on this page, on the emails, keeping an eye on the news channels for any updates, keeping in touch with the family and ensuring them about our efforts and the progress about our efforts. Everyday this page got 100s of likes, and 100s of new people asking what we are doing for this cause. And we repeated the same procedure again and again. We had to keep the spirits alive of thousands of you out there, and your appreciation, your support gave us hope, encouraged us to do more for this cause. With time we decided that we must do more, something more appropriate and something more powerful. We tried to find any source that could help us in this cause, and then we came across Amnesty.
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization. Its stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated”. We thought this is the best opportunity to raise awareness about this incident and make Amnesty intervene in this case so that our authorities would become alert of the intervention and as it was the wish of the family too. We wanted to send as many emails to them as possible. The members on the page were desperate to do something for this cause, to see how they can help and we decided that we would let everyone make a contribution in this. The idea was to give Amnesty a strong and powerful representation of Pakistani people and their condemnation about this incident so they know that there are still some good people who are against such terrible and inhuman barbarism. Since 62,000+ members were willing to do anything to help us, we thought we’d set the target of 10,000 mails and send them to Amnesty so that they feel compelled to intervene in this case and help us achieve our mission to get justice for the two brothers. Seeing the enthusiasm of every member, seeing how hurt everyone was and felt obliged to do something for the brothers, we thought the emails would flood in and in no time would probably reach up to 10,000. We were naive to think that we’d get an overwhelming response. We’ve been working on it for past one week and emails haven’t even reached to 400.
We, as Pakistanis have done what we always do. We protest about something when the wound is fresh, and with time, we heal the wound with the dust of our laziness, our selfish and personal benefits. We’re only talk and no trousers. Now it feels like we’re begging people to help us in this, and when we don’t any response, it feels like we’re begging for something that we don’t deserve. Some of the fans have even gone to an extreme of calling us fools to be exaggerating and over-doing this, saying we are giving a wrong impression about Pakistan to the outside world. We, who spent countless days and nights gathering you all under one platform to raise our voices on a united level and fight for this because, are giving a negative impression about Pakistan. We have received some heart wrenching emails that it now feels like we’re in the wrong for reminding everyone of the incident. Were we wrong to put all our energies in this cause so that Mughees and Muneeb’s 8 year old sister could grow up proudly in this society with the faith that her brothers were innocents, and with the comfort that the people of her country Pakistan are not as bad as the world thinks they are? Were we wrong to ensure the parents that the loss of their two sons have given them 62,000+ sons and daughters who are constantly praying for them and are supporting them in their fight for justice? The dead and only verbal protest from you all shows that we’re alone in our fight, and we are tired of fighting alone. We gave up our social lives for this page and this cause, we weren’t just updating the status or posting the news updates about the case, we have done far too much behind the scene but never took the credit to ourselves and always told the family that this is the effort of 62,000+ Pakistanis.
We have given up now, we can’t embarrass ourselves in front of Amnesty anymore, and we can’t give anymore barren hopes to the family. Our conscious doesn’t allow it. We carried on with this fight because we thought we had the support of thousands of you, but we didn’t even have a few hundreds to support us. We are sorry to disappoint those few people who were actively encouraging us and supported us, but unfortunately in this case we needed the majority and not minority. We are going to draw back from Amnesty, and we are not going to give the family anymore hopes about the progress of our efforts as everything has turned in to an empty shell. We tried our best to keep it alive, but seems like people have soundproof walls around their comfort zone and we can’t keep banging our heads against them anymore. We’re tired, mentally, physically and emotionally. The incident didn’t wreck our nerves as much as this dead and empty response from the members did. We are disappointed and very ashamed in front of the family of Mughees and Muneeb, who now have become a forgotten dream for many of us.
We will keep this page on one condition only, if, all of you reading it, promise us to help us with the Amnesty, and assure us that you’re still by our side, we will continue with this fight. Initially, we gave you hope and courage, and now we need you to raise our spirits by proving that we are not alone in this fight for Justice. Can you all do that? The fate of the page is in your hands now.
Sample Letters & Guidelines for writing to Amnesty International (One email per individual): http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=148284111882175%EF%BB%BF