Timeline Thursday 27 December 2007

Events on Thursday 27 December 2007 2

• 2007 Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) Died 27 December 2007, aged 54 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide bomb attack at a campaign rally in Rawalpindi. Her death, weeks before scheduled elections, triggered widespread unrest across Pakistan.
• 2007 Kenyan election crisis begins Disputed presidential vote triggers ethnic violence The disputed re-election of President Mwai Kibaki over opposition leader Raila Odinga triggered widespread ethnic violence across Kenya. The unrest killed over a thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands before a power-sharing deal was reached in early 2008.