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Human rights prize for Benazir Bhutto

The son of slain Pakistani former prime minister Benazir Bhutto defended his mother's human rights record on Wednesday after accepting a UN prize in her honor.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari accepted the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights reading a prescient quotation from her autobiography that his mother had written before her Dec 2007 assassination, saying she realized returning to her homeland could cost her life but did so because "democracy in Pakistan is not just important for Pakistanis it is important for the world".