http://moderate.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/benazir-bhutto-an-age-of-hope-is-over/ Collection of News & Opinion articles. Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:14:41 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://moderate.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/benazir-bhutto-an-age-of-hope-is-over/#comment-27382 Ijtema » Blog Archive » More from the Bhutto Aftermath Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:37:24 +0000 http://moderate.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/benazir-bhutto-an-age-of-hope-is-over/#comment-27382 [...] Moderate Observer notes that Bhutto’s death is simply the latest in a string of politically-mo...: In New Delhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi was killed in 1948 by an outraged Hindu. Pakistan’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated in 1951–in the same Rawalpindi park where Benazir Bhutto was attacked–and General Zia ul-Haq perished in a still mysterious plane crash in 1988. In Sri Lanka in 1959, Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike fell victim to a fanatic Buddhist monk, the first of two generations of more than a half-dozen leading politicians to die in shootings and bombings. (Tamil Tiger rebels would later try but fail to kill Bandaranaike’s daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunga, when she was president.) Sheikh Mujibir Rahman, founder and first Prime Minister of independent Bangladesh, was murdered in 1975; in 1981 Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman, was shot in an army coup. Nepal’s entire royal family was wiped out in one evening in Kathmandu in 2001, apparently by a disaffected crown prince… From end to end, South Asia is a region drenched in blood. [...] [...] Moderate Observer notes that Bhutto’s death is simply the latest in a string of politically-mo…: In New Delhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi was killed in 1948 by an outraged Hindu. Pakistan’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated in 1951–in the same Rawalpindi park where Benazir Bhutto was attacked–and General Zia ul-Haq perished in a still mysterious plane crash in 1988. In Sri Lanka in 1959, Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike fell victim to a fanatic Buddhist monk, the first of two generations of more than a half-dozen leading politicians to die in shootings and bombings. (Tamil Tiger rebels would later try but fail to kill Bandaranaike’s daughter, Chandrika Kumaratunga, when she was president.) Sheikh Mujibir Rahman, founder and first Prime Minister of independent Bangladesh, was murdered in 1975; in 1981 Bangladeshi President Ziaur Rahman, was shot in an army coup. Nepal’s entire royal family was wiped out in one evening in Kathmandu in 2001, apparently by a disaffected crown prince… From end to end, South Asia is a region drenched in blood. [...]

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