Speaking about power: Fatima Bhutto
In this short video of a Guardian interview with young Pakistani poet and journalist Fatima Bhutto, she speaks in a compelling way about how things have gone so wrong in her country (“Hay festival video: ‘Power is violence in Pakistan'” June 3, 2010).
Embodied in her words, it seems to me, is a frightening warning for the citizenry of all countries, including my own.
Excerpt:
We have for the last 63 years of our country’s history allowed those in power to be above the law. We have laws and bills and acts safeguarding those in power, protecting them from questions, protecting them from recrimination, protecting them from the consequences of their often corrupt and criminal legacies.
And the people are protected by nothing, but held hostage by silence.
