The Fight for Democracy?

Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in the hope of returning the nation to democracy. She had been warned that extremist elements would try to assassinate her. She resolutely ignored the threats saying that nothing should stand in the way of her democratic mission.
Miss Bhutto is the daughter of a previous president who, although he brought Pakistan into a democratic state, later in his tenure of office turned corrupt. He was finally hanged for all sorts of crimes against the state. Whether these were put-up charges we may never know. Then the present military regime took over and has remained in power in one form or another for many years - propped up by the Americans who look on the present regime as a bastion of defence against the Taliban in Afghanistan and are therefore prepared to overlook other misdemeanours like human rights abuses etc. (Shades here of previous American relations with Iraq, Iran, Korea, Vietnam . . .)
Back to Miss Bhutto. As I said she stayed firm in her resolution to try to bring back democracy - even to the point of making arrangements with the present regime to have charges against her dropped (don't ask me how - I don't have a clue).
So on arrival in Pakistan after eight years of self-imposed exile (because she would have been thrown in jail or executed if she had stayed) she staged a big rally. It was well publicised and at least 100,000 people turned up to line the route of her procession. She was carried in an armoured truck - just as well for her because, predictably, two suicide bomb attacks were carried out on her truck. The truck was disabled by the first. The second blast was even bigger and took the lives of at least 130 people and cause many more hundreds of casualties.
Miss Bhutto was interviewed after the event and told of the carnage.
I wonder if she stopped to consider the causes? She had been warned that attempts would be made on her life. She knew she needed the massed support of the people to carry her campaign. It was obvious that many thousands would be at any demonstration she organised. Yet she still carried on. She knew that there was a risk not only to her life but to those of her followers. I wonder if she really realised the true risks each one of her supporters was taking just by being in her vicinity? She probably did. She probably also calculated that such deaths and injuries would help rally support for her campaign against extremism.
Did those people who died or were injured really want to die or suffer for the cause?
I wonder . . .