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Throughout the speech, Bhutto pointed to her experiences in Pakistan, praising international response to the dictatorship which her regime succeeds. Bhutto was elected prime minister in December, four months after the sudden death of General Mohammad Zia...
Bhutto is an example of that trend. Although she had a privileged childhood, she spent much of a decade in prison and exile. She suffered through the overthrow, imprisonment and execution of her father Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto at the hands of General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who ruled Pakistan from 1977 until his death in an airplane crash last year. Three months later, Bhutto became Prime Minister after waging a fiery political campaign that led hundreds of thousands of her supporters into the streets...
Bhutto spent her five years after Oxford in and out of jail because of her outspoken criticism of Zia and his military regime. Even though she was placed under house arrsest in solitary confinement, she continued to organize the Pakistan People's Party to fight the military dictator's government...
...Zia used the military to run Pakistan under strict Islamic laws, often oppressive to women and minorities, and he regularly denied political prisoners the right to a fair trial...
Following Zia's sudden death in a plane crash last August, Bhutto began a cross-country campaign to gain the post of prime minister, promising to safeguard human rights, lift restrictions on the freedom of the press and improve the education and well-being of the country's poor...