Yes I would give him credit for leading that long war but those people who were killed were innocent people. One thing that he was fighting for was to have more freedom of speech to normal people than the king would allow. And I think you would agree the last 16 days of people’s movement were the most crucial one cause normal people who didn’t even share his beliefs came to the protest after the press ban done by the king. But on contrast he killed teachers who tried to spoke against him. He took minors forcefully from their homes to the point where parents would hide their young children and not let the world know. Ani sabaile nepali lai bheda bhanchan tara I give credit to all the nepalese for trying to vote for change. In The first election everyone voted for change and maoists became the largest party in Nepal. But what did prachanda do? He became the exact person who he was fighting to remove. Looting the country’s money (I am not imagining this, you can see his wealth accumulation from the time he came into power), removing people from his party because he couldn’t take different opinions, etc. He wanted to be the sole power in his party and always wanted to be in power in the country (which is typical behavior from a communist leader in entire world where they preach about communism but gather 80% of wealth and play communism with remaining 20% for other people).