The assassination of former Pakastani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has evoked strong reactions across the world, including on a couple of local websites. Charlottesville-based political blogger Rick Sincere recalls meeting Bhutto in a Fairfax townhouse and calls her “one of the most authentic political leaders I have ever met.”
The Charlottesville Podcasting Network responded to Bhutto’s death with a recording of her 2002 speech at Roanoke College, a year after September 11. “The world is a very different place than what we had dreamed of when the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War ended,” Bhutto said at the beginning of her speech. “The era of peace for which we prayed became a time of war.” She then discussed the difficult times that Pakistan and the Middle East faced and emphasized that the 2001 terrorist attacks did not represent the majority of the Muslim world.
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