The Weekly Tribune

The government of Pakistan seems to feel it's expedient to add outrage and confusion to the volatile climate among their citizens since the assassination of their former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. A collection of geniuses in the government came up with the bright idea to claim that Bhutto's death was actually a coincidence and not a result of the suicide bombing that killed twenty of her supporters at that fateful political rally. As The Weekly Tribune reported earlier, government officials have suggested Bhutto was killed hitting her head on the sunroof of the car when she ducked to avoid the assassins gunfire. The official government report conflicts with eyewitness accounts from news correspondents at the scene and even Bhutto's political advisor, Safdar Abbassi, who was sitting behind her in the car when she was killed. Dr. Abbassi told The Sunday Telegraph:

"I saw her: she looked as though she ducked in when she heard the firing. We did not realise that she had been hit by a bullet."

Photos and videos of the event plainly contradict the government's peculiar claim that Bhutto's death was an accident and not a murder. It may seem odd to any sane individual that the Pakistani government would insist on this absurd fiction. But if the government can get away with the official declaration that Bhutto's death was not murder but was in fact an accident then the legal ramifications shift rather dramatically. The state is fully aware that an accidental death would be deemed an unfortunate tragedy for which no one is culpable beyond the crazed fanatic who was captured on film firing his gun at Bhutto before he blew himself up.



Source: telegraph.co.uk , guardian unlimited