Freedom fighter or terrorist is a very fine line and your view depends which side of the line your looking from.
eg.Che Guevara south american freedom fighter north american terrorist.Its all about perspective.
Michael Collins Irish freedom fighter english terrorist.
Osama bin laden al-Qaeda freedom fighter everyone else terrorist.
I don't think we should make him out to be a saint either. I've always found him to be a bit of a bully and he was a gun man. But that's what was needed. Politics had failed. The British had proved they couldn't be trusted to follow through on agreements so violence was the only solution.
How do people think things would have turned out if he'd lived?
Never forget Thatcher once called one for greatest men ever to have walked this earth a “terrorist,” she was referring to Nelson Mandela.
"Live for nothing or die for something, your call."