The assasination of Benazir Bhutto is the most shocking moments for the International Relations studies at 2007. The first woman ever to served as a prime minister in any moslem countries, Benazir Bhutto was also the symbolization for the democracy itself in Pakistan. The woman who received degree from Radcliffe College and Oxford University, and also received an honorary degree from Harvard University in 1989, left her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, and her three children: two daughters and a son. A few days ago, an article from Newsweek Magazine stated that Pakistan is the most dangerous country today. At first, the article gained mixed reviews from the reader, one of the reader even commenting that the most dangerous contry in the world is actually United States: stating the result of Afghanistan and Iraq today as the prove of his/her argument. This assassination could point us the reality of how dangerous the situation in the Pakistan really is.
The late Benazir Bhutto was not blind: on September 26, she stated on the interview for CNN that she was aware of turbulences that may severe her life when she decide to return to her homeland. Still, she decided to step forward in order to prevail the democracy in her country.
“Born is Pakistan, my life mirrors its turbulence, its tragedies and its triumphs,” Bhutto wrote on her memoir “Daughter of the East” as quoted from the obituary on the Jakarta Post.
“After military dictatorship an anarchic situation developed, which the terrorists and Osama (bin Laden) have exploited,” Bhutto stated on the interview with Wolf Blitzer, the journalist from the CNN. “They don’t want democracy, they don’t want me back, and they don’t believe in women governing nations, so they will try to plot against me. But these are risks that must be taken. I’m prepared to take them.”
The icon of democracy in Pakistan herself risk her life for the sake of democracy in Pakistan. Although Benazir Bhutto has left us all, her story of struggle for democracy will never be forgotten. The writer especially hopes that her spirit will always be a pedestal for the next episodes in prevailing democracy in Pakistan.
(JKTPOST/CNN/IHT)
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