Leader to me is someone who listens to people voice and act for the people. Prachanda has been voice of nepali...and by nepali, I mean the majority of nepali, not the (minority) ones who have enough money to send their kids to US. People do die during revolution if you don't know..but unfortunately some innocent ones also do....and some martyrs do....You can't expect things to go perfectly but you have every right to ask question...but there is no need to exaggerate...eg. by saying he killed hundreds of thousands of people.. Politicians act out of fear and for power and approval and vote. I am not advocating that prachanda should be the president of nepal or whatever. But I believe he has changed nepalis enough to control the politicians. And that how real democracy works. People rule!!!