by Laura Conaway

Alexis Hulme, aka Relex109, set an interview we did with an eyewitness to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto and posted it on YouTube. The original interview, with Farah Ispahani, a member of Bhutto's media team, is tough stuff. After the jump, Hulme gives his take on the process of remaking it:

 

I was watching television....nothing special or groundbreaking — just a Simpsons episode I had already watched. I changed the channel and was greeted with the news of this shooting and suicide bombing. I'm sad to say it, but the first thought in my mind was, "Well that's a surprise."

I logged onto the Internet, and after reading many articles I came across NPR's interview with Farah Ispahani, which was different from any other interview or video I had found that night in that it brought home the human factor — for me at least, anyway.

The old saying about a picture being worth a thousand words came to mind. I am a YouTube fanatic, and in my spare time I love to watch and make videos. I decided to paint the picture with different parts of videos I found on the Internet.

The response I have received has been overwhelming for me, mainly because this is something that in some shape or form is going to affect everyone on the planet. Benazir Bhutto was a voice of peace and now that voice has gone, creating an unstable Pakistan with knock-on effects for the rest of the world. Her assassination will cause wounds that may take a long time to heal. I'm not going to pretend to be well-educated or fully aware of politics and religion, but it seems to me that this is part of a global issue and that some compromise has to be made on all sides or there can be no winners.