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Photo Gallery 'Bhutto,' the Documentary

Monday marks the third anniversary of Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Two US political strategists began making a documentary shortly after her death which is being released in the US and Germany this month. The filmmakers talked to SPIEGEL ONLINE about Bhutto's legacy and why she risked everything to devote herself to politics.
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Monday marks the third anniversary of Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Two American political strategists have made a documentary about her life entitled "Bhutto." Here, Benazir Bhutto's supporters in Karachi commemorate the anniversary of her death in 2008.

Foto: STR/PAKISTAN/ REUTERS
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Benazir Bhutto at an election rally on Dec. 27, 2007. She was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack shortly after this picture was taken -- only weeks after she came back to Pakistan from eight years in self-imposed exile.

Foto: AAMIR QURESHI/ AFP
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Minutes before she was assasinated, Benazir Bhutto addressed thousands of supporters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on Dec. 27, 2007.

Foto: John Moore/ Getty Images
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A Bhutto supporter after the attack that killed Benazir Bhutto and over 20 other people: The politician was killed just weeks before she would likely have been elected to rule her country for the third time.

Foto: B.K.Bangash/ AP
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Benazir Bhutto's book, 'Reconciliation,' published in Feb. 2008, two months after her death, "was meant to be the manifesto for her third term," says filmmaker Duane Baughman.

Foto: B.K.Bangash/ AP
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A UN report published in April 2010 failed to identify who was behind Bhutto's assassination but concluded that her death could have been avoided if proper security measures had been in place.

Foto: FAROOQ NAEEM/ AFP
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The makers of the documentary film "Bhutto" managed to get interviews with Benazir Bhutto's daughters, Bakhtawar (right) and Asifa (left), only months after their mother's death. They are pictured here in mourning on Dec. 29, 2007.

Foto: AAMIR QURESHI/ AFP
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A memorial to Benazir Bhutto is seen ahead of the third anniversary of her death.

Foto: FAISAL MAHMOOD/ REUTERS
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People visit Benazir Bhutto's mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan, to mark the third anniversary of her death.

Foto: Fawad Hussein/ dpa
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