Sean: ブット暗殺

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ブット暗殺
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   Tokyo has [1]had the same reaction to the Bhutto assassination as the
   rest of the developed world:

     On the night of 27 December, Minister of Foreign Affairs Masahiko
     Takamura spoke to the press corps about the assassination of former
     Prime Minister of Pakistan [Benazir] Bhutto: "We had hoped that
     free and fair elections would be conducted; there aren't words to
     describe the heinousness of using violence to decide such matters."
     At the same time, "We fervently hope that Pakistan will ride out
     this tragedy and [do us all the favor of] treading a path toward
     democratization. Japan, too, wishes to support the democratization
     of Pakistan." *

   Rondi Adamson [2]cites Christopher Hitchens's [3]reaction in Slate, in
   which he even-temperedly examines her strengths and weaknesses:

     The sternest critic of Benazir Bhutto would not have been able to
     deny that she possessed an extraordinary degree of physical
     courage. When her father was lying in prison under sentence of
     death from Pakistan's military dictatorship in 1979, and other
     members of her family were trying to escape the country, she boldly
     flew back in.
     ...
     The fact of the matter is that Benazir's undoubted courage had a
     certain fanaticism to it. She had the largest Electra complex of
     any female politician in modern history, entirely consecrated to
     the memory of her executed father, the charming and unscrupulous
     Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who had once boasted that the people of
     Pakistan would eat grass before they would give up the struggle to
     acquire a nuclear weapon. (He was rather prescient thereâthe
     country now does have nukes, and millions of its inhabitants can
     barely feed themselves.) A nominal socialist, Zulfikar Bhutto was
     an autocratic opportunist, and this family tradition was carried on
     by the PPP, a supposedly populist party that never had a genuine
     internal election and was in factâlike quite a lot else in
     PakistanâBhutto family property.
     ...
     This is what makes her murder such a disaster. There is at least
     some reason to think that she had truly changed her mind, at least
     on the Taliban and al-Qaida, and was willing to help lead a battle
     against them. She had, according to some reports, severed the
     connection with her rather questionable husband. She was attempting
     to make the connection between lack of democracy in Pakistan and
     the rise of mullah-manipulated fanaticism.

   That's just his view, of course, but it squares with what I remember
   from reports about her second tenure as prime minister: Bhutto was
   politically progressive by study and reasoning but also had the
   reflexive sense of entitlement and privilege of the daughter of a
   super-elite family. Her assassination is a tragedy in any case, but
   it's doubly unfortunate if she really was beginning to come around to
   harsh reality.
   * Japanese readers who click through to the article will notice that
   I've translated ããã as if it were ããã. "we will humbly receive the
   favor of..." didn't quite seem to catch the mood here of dealing with
   an unstable nuclear power with Muslim radicals in the population.

References

   1. http://www.nikkei.co.jp/news/past/honbun.cfm?i=AT2M2703U%2027122007&g=MH&d=20071227
   2. http://wonkitties.blogspot.com/2007/12/hitchens-on-bhuttos-death-and-legacy.html
   3. http://www.slate.com/id/2180952/fr/rss/