Sì Benazir , non ci scorderemo di te, come di tutte le figure importanti del 20° secolo nate nel subcontinente indiano. Figure eroiche, tragiche e naturalmente contraddittorie. Forse non è un caso che proprio in India siano nate tante persone che cambiarono la storia del secolo scorso. L'immane tragedia indiana si è sempre infulcrata nella propria cultura millenaria, profonda, umana; nell'unica cultura che si possa pensare costituisca un'alternativa al grandioso progresso umano e scientifico dell' Occidente giudaico cristiano .
Figure Benazir heroic and contradictory, as the father of your country Muhammad Ali Jinnah : true patriot, a man of culture who worked closely with Mohandas Gandhi and Pandit Nerhu to construct the Indian nation. Brave man, but not to the point to follow the Mahatma in his idea of \u200b\u200ba single Indian state. The same Jawaharlal Nerhu, while faithful follower of Gandhi, agreed to split the subcontinent into India proper and western Pakistan and eastern Europe, also endorsed it on a pure folly to Jinnah: a state into two sections separated by 1500 km. However, the most terrible consequence of the separation was the exodus of millions of Muslims to Pakistan and millions of Hindus to India. They had lived together peacefully under British rule, and then seemed to be no longer possible: the brutal undeclared war that followed caused more than one million deaths.
Nerhu clear his undoubted ability as a statesman in the first few difficult years, but proved to be disoriented on the international scene and heard the sirens and the Yugoslav Third World in that sad little theater that was the non-aligned movement. He could not handle the problem of Kashmir , because of which there were two wars between India and Pakistan. India had also had another - and discussed questionable - Patriot: Subhash Chandra Bose Bengali , a strong supporter of independence, several times imprisoned, fled during the Second World War in Germany , where - with the support of Hitler - tried to incite the Bangladeshi against the United Kingdom . He then moved in Burma - then occupied by Japan - where he organized the Indian army to fight the British. Certainly his courage deserved a clearer view of what was good and what was evil.
not we forget you, Benazir, as we will not forget your father Ali Bhutto, who fought with the sacrifice of life to make Pakistan a democratic nation, but also said to be willing to eat grass on their own people, just to have nuclear weapons which he had with the ' India, where he then died of hunger. There's not forget Indira Gandhi , the daughter of Nerhu that seemed to represent a hope for the miserable and shameful condition of women in India but that brought the nation from the alliance with gray non-alignment 's Soviet Union.
Now that your life was tragically and prematurely extinguished by hate and violence, we remember with admiration and respect, but do not make you an icon: you were not afraid, but you had spots just like any human being. You always remember your vision for democratic and pragmatic at the same time, for your extraordinary moral courage and physical - in the end it cost you your life - but your arrogance will not forget about the scandals in which you were involved and how you have supported the Taliban movement .
We continental Europeans, however, we should draw some lessons from Indian and Pakistani political leaders: they were all controversial figures, who worked many times bad choices and even outrageous, but they were women and men who never hesitated to expose themselves in person, always put themselves at risk and their families to get the results they thought right - to go back or to reason - for their people. Again we see the greatness and the hope of the Indian continent: in the fact that some of their leaders are servants of the people feel. The Hindu extremist who assassinated Gandhi knelt before him, before shooting, would not have happened anywhere else in the world.
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