Justice for the Bhuttos, Justice for the Nation
By Aisha Shaukat
Sacramento, CA
I am pro-humans. I am pro-democracy. I am pro-life. It is a question of rights and security, of honor and protection, of justice and injustice, of a nation’s values, of the justness of political processes.
I am pro-justice, and Benazir Bhutto’s assassination was an unjust and unjustified act. I speak against it and do so openly.
Benazir’s death left the nation in chaotic and unabated grief and mourning. What would a grieving nation do? Without a beacon of hope? Grief. Sorrow. Mourning. Tears. Pro-Bhutto slogans. Cries. Utmost sadness. Loud silence. The nation will not forget the tragic day of December 27. Pakistanis remember April 4, 1979, and will remember also December 27, 2007.
Two Bhuttos were killed in the same city— Rawalpindi.
They killed her too. They have committed a horrendous crime by taking away the people’s leader from them. A few feet away. She was a few feet away from life, and a few feet away from death. Death approached her faster than life.
Bhutto’s blood will flood many hearts and many eyes; it will continue to mobilize the people of Pakistan for democracy.
It is time to change the fate of this suffering nation. It is time to speak with one voice to end one-man’s rule. It is time for democracy. Let the country live and let us become one nation. How can the public be denied something that they genuinely struggle for, that they with their full heart, mind, and soul yearn and desire for? The public determines the nation’s agendas. Are we that helpless as Pakistanis? We need justice. We desire justice. Justice for the victims; justice for the innocent. Justice for the leaders. Justice for the Bhutto family. Justice for the nation.
There are no elections without justice. Justice is more important than elections. Free and fair elections. What an irony? Free and fair elections. Now Pakistan will have free elections. There is no opposition to the government candidate. The ground is free. Fairness will be dealt with in the next elections.
But justice it is that we demand now. Before the elections. Justice for the innocent. Justice for the Bhutto family. Justice for the Nation.
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