Damien

I think the rest of the world remembers Mandela's bombing campaign but judge it to have been acceptable in the context of the time in the same way no one really calls the French Resistance terrorists. I think if a people are being systematically oppressed, denied the right to vote, and even killed then it's hard to condemn them for taking up armed resistance in retaliation, especially in the case of Mandela who didn't target civilians. Finally I would point out, again, that his true legacy was after he was released from jail when he reigned in the ANC, helped broker the final peace deal with the underacknowledged F. W. de Klerk, became the first black President of South Africa, and didn't seek retribution or revenge on the white minority who had oppressed him for so long because he forgive them that.