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27 December 2007

Benazir Bhutto assassinated

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been killed in a suicide attack at an election rally in the city of Rawalpindi.

She was president of the Oxford Union Debating Society in 1977.

6 comments:

  1. Anonymous2:46 pm

    Ugh, disgusting, you lack even the integrity to allow comment on your frankly offensive memorial. I guess if she was a debater she must be a good person...

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  2. So let me see if I have this straight. A coward came on this site and hid behind "anonymous" posting libelous material on MY website so I would take the blame and then accuses ME of lack of integrity when I delete his/her pointless rant.

    You are an insignificant little person who does not the courage to publish your previous comments about a dead woman and her family against your own name. I am not an expert on Pakistani politics or on the accusations against Mrs Bhutto and her family. However from the nature of your poorly written comment and your unwillingness to stand over it I suspect you are no expert either.

    If you develop a backbone overnight, choose to name yourself (and provide confirmation that you are not hiding behind another innocent person) and then repost your previous accusations against the Bhutto family then I will allow them through.

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  3. Anonymous3:57 am

    I have published my views quite clearly to people I know, and in other forums, but then those forums are not ones where the person I am refuting controls the filter of discussion, so you may consider this message for you and you alone, since you apparently lack the willingness or ability to debate with an anonymous person, a function you allow your website to utilise for a reason assumedly. Not that it should matter.

    There was nothing libelious in what was written, and it is comical to see you suggest that as the grounds upon which you removed it. I guess someone better tell wikipedia and BBC news or watch out, and remove both their articles, and the comments made on those sites. If you sleep easier at night for feeling this, believe what you will. But I think we both know the suggestion of legal action is comical.

    As for the specifics of the charges, it is obvious you have no interest in either delving further into them, if you have not done so already, or altering what you have written. I suggest you offer like tributes in future to other Harvard or Oxford education despots and criminals, as their ivory caps or school ties are apparently worthy of tribute, no matter how many innocents they killed. If you are actually interested in learning something more about the person you are offering a tribute to, you will not want for sources.

    Sincerely, Anonymous

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  4. I can't believe I'm getting dragged into a debate with a coward who hides behind Anonymous. Therefore I won't. His/her two most recent contributions have largely been attacks on me so I will post them and let others judge.

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  5. Dear Anonymous

    clearly for sure i do not know you because i haven't seen any forums i am 'IN'(mostly asian/ autralasian forums) gloriously appreciating the death of Mme. Benazir Bhutto ...so if you can kindly show me and the rest of the world which forum are you referring to, then i would 'donate' my time in knowing your views..
    But here, i sense that you just came from nowhere and place your supposedly 'correct' view without letting us or 'me' know on what basis you are talking about.

    The only thing posted by Monsieur Colm was that she, Mme Bhutto was assasinated and she was the former President of Oxford Union, one of the oldest and prestigious debating union in the World. And since M.Colm's website is about debates, there is such relevance of putting it up here. Never in his posting, ever, connotates anything supporting what she had done (good or bad)to her country.

    And if you don't like what Oxford Union has done so far, tell them directly(the Oxford Union itself) or other unions for inviting 'controversial figures'.

    ronald
    Univ.Politech.Valencia,Spain

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  6. Anonymous1:26 pm

    http://www.slate.com/id/2180952/

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