“It’s as if the progressive, brave mother of Pakistan has been killed by her militant sons.”
December 29, 2007
giving birth. never know what’s to come. a woman can never
give enough. birth.
i raised my sons to be peaceful, to challenge their father.
i raised them to die honest men.
On 27 December 2007, Benazir Bhutto was killed whilst leaving a campaign rally for the PPP at Liaquat National Bagh, where she had given a spirited address to party supporters in the run-up to the January 2008 parliamentary elections. After entering her bulletproof vehicle, Bhutto stood up through its sunroof to wave to the crowds. At this point, a Lashkar i Jhangvi assassin on a motorcycle took the opportunity to shoot at her with a pistol. The assassin then detonated explosives stored about his person, killing approximately 20 people.
She told me that she did not fear death.
Bhutto knew going back to Pakistan was dangerous, but said her return was “final and irrevocable.” When talking to an old college classmate in October, she spoke like someone that always knew death was near. One of her current transits is Neptune trine Neptune, and perhaps that gave her spiritual comfort, and an ability to see beyond her own life span.
moments before death i looked
up at my nurse & told her that i could
very clearly
see
her wings
take my breath/i don’t fear
death// the thought of dying
only makes me work harder
to find you
to wake to freedom
Al-Qaeda spokesman Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid claimed responsibility for the attack, describing Bhutto as “the most precious American asset.” The Pakistani government also stated that it had proof that al-Qaeda was behind the assassination. A report for CNN stated: “the Interior Ministry also earlier told Pakistan’s GEO-TV that the suicide bomber belonged to Lashkar i Jhangvi — an al-Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim militant group that the government has blamed for hundreds of killings”. According to the government of Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud was named as the mastermind behind the assassination. Lashkar i Jhangvi, a Wahabi Muslim extremist organization affiliated with al-Qaeda that also attempted in 1999 to assassinate former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, was responsible for the killing of the 54-year-old Bhutto along with approximately 20 bystanders.
don’t make this about factions
& fake ass confessions
when it’s the same perpetrator
war monger pussy exploiter
global killer it’s always been
US
”On a number of occasions she told me that
she did not fear death.
It was one of the dangers of playing
politics in Pakistan.”
my altar to you will be red,
not white. fertility, not death,
is what we will remember;
a mother’s labor 2 give life
2 a nation
red for the daughters who will be
named for you.
for the courage with which you tried
to redeem a history
with only two hands
compassion for violence? how? with death orders on the lives of political east indian/south asian women worldwide, now is the time to remember that every word’s a risk. every stance. every desire carries meaning & the promise of consequences for each revelation. when Benazir was killed along with 20 others, the planets were colliding over Tehran and the “heart” of the US. her assassination is likely to have a devastating effect on the US, in the forms of influencing the upcoming presidential elections & causing much grief to women & men in the diaspora in North America & our Iranian kin.
brown girls got brains
we str8 up intelligentsia;
got the keys 2 the kingdom
but the boys be hatin
be takin all the credit 4 our gains;
they be rapin us on dates
makin fun of our pain
raisin their voice 2 show
they reign
// i got no regrets;
only fulfillments
hate on me, hater
now or later
cause I’m gonna do me
you’ll be mad, baby
go ‘head and hate on me, hate on
i’m not afraid of
what i got 2 pay for
you cannot hate on me
cause my mind is free
feel my destiny
so shall it be
