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Unprecedented Protests over Bhutto's assassination

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International Viewpoint #395 - Dec 29, 2007
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1396

Benazir assassination - Unprecedented mass reaction

by Farooq Tariq

Pakistan has never seen so many people protesting in the streets as
over the last two days. They were all united in condemnation of Benazir
Bhutto's brutal murder. The news was heard with a great shock;
immediate mass anger erupted. 28th December was the first day of
general strike called by many organizations, ranging from political
parties to various professional groups.

hours of life, we ought to devote a hundred
years.

205. When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the
eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see,
engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and
which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather
than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now
rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have
this place and time been allotted to me? Memoria hospitis unius diei
praetereuntis.[27]

206. The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

207. How many kingdoms know us not!

208. Why is my knowledge limited? Why my stature? Why my life to one hundred
years rather than to a thousand? What reason has nature had for giving me
such, and for choosing this number rather than another in the infinity of
those from which there is no more reason to choose one than another, trying
nothing else?

209. Art thou less a slave by being loved and favoured by thy master? Thou
art indeed well off, slave. Thy master favours th