We South Asians like our leaders dead
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That was the extreme makeover of Benazir Bhutto, as it has been for many of her subcontinent predecessors. India's Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Solomon Bandaranaike, Bangladesh's Mujibur Rahman and Ziaur Rahman, Benazir's own father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, back to Mahatma Gandhi himself -- many of South Asia's leaders have come to a fiery end. Almost 20 years after his death rumors still circulate about whether the plane crash that killed Pakistani strongman Zia ul-Haq was really an accident.