Benazir Bhutto, R.I.P.

Heartbreaking news.

Many people have been writing about her death today, and so I’m not sure what I can add, other than that my heart goes out to her and her people, and to point you to Sylvia, who has collected a bunch of the amazing testimonials to a truly wonderful and brave woman.

I think Nezua sums up how I feel about her death:

PERHAPS the most obvious admission that a person can make stating that they are personally incapable of changing the world’s destiny with their own abilities and gifts and unique vision is to simply take the life of those who make it their mission to do so.

And Shark-Fu on the future of Pakistan:

Freedom requires opposition…dissent and the passionate defense of the right to voice dissent…not religion, or constant agreement or any of the love it or leave it bullshit those who fear the masses toss out as if an argument where a terroristic threat.

Silence the opposition and you smother freedom.

Smother freedom and the will of the people will struggle to catch fire.

I think that’s why Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan despite all the risks….because of the risks…to nurture the fire.

May Benazir Bhutto always be remembered and may her work, her courage, her hope continue on.