Benazir Bhutto Assassination

What a great person she was. All she wanted that Pakistan was peaceful, but that dream didn’t come true. Her name was Benazir Bhutto. Benazir Bhutto was about to bring peace to Pakistan, when she was assassinated Thursday afternoon at Rawalpindi, Karachi. She waved to supporters after a political rally. Benazir Bhutto, wearing a white head scarf, had addressed a rally in the park, and then got into her bulletproof vehicle. She was being driven out of the park when she asked that the vehicle’s sunroof be opened so she could bid thousands of supporter’s farewell, according to witnesses and several aides, including one who had been sitting next to her.

As she waved, “three to five gunshots sounded,” witnesses said. Bhutto sank back into her seat, just as a suicide bomber detonated explosives to the left of her vehicle. People inside the SUV said her face and neck were badly injured and she was covered in blood, apparently from the bullets. As blood poured from her wounds and pooled in the back seat like a swimming pool, “she lost consciousness,” aides said, and never regained it. News of her death sent angry protesters swarming the emergency ward of the nearby hospital, where doctors declared Ms. Bhutto dead at 6:16 p.m.

Her body was taken to an airport and was being flown to her family’s ancestral home in the Larkana district of southern Pakistan. From the airport, grieving supporters carried Bhutto’s body in a plain wooden coffin for burial. In Karachi and other cities, frenzied crowds vented their rage, blocking the streets, burning tires and throwing stones. This went on hours and hours. After the assassination, there were a number of riots resulting in approximately 20 deaths. Around 250 cars were burnt. On the other hand, the Pakistan government says that Bhutto’s death did not occur by the bullets. Instead her death occurred by the bomb blast near her car. The impact was so great that she banged her head on the cars sun roof lever which then resulted in her death. There are many other ways that people think that she died, although these are the most reasonable. She was born on June 21, 1953, near Karachi, Pakistan. A local town called Sindh. She died December 27, 2007 at Rawalpindi, Pakistan at the age of 54. Let us all hope for peace in south Asia.