Neda...

[Subotan]

Link. A fine insight into how opression operates.

Semi-literate conservative hicks from the countryside, used by a regime to beat up the educated urban middle class - now that's not really a first.


Not a first either, is the widespread use of rape as a means of opression. A direct, physical symbol and instrument of oppression. At once the means and (psychological) ends of subjugation.

The video is really good, and it's interesting that the regime had to bus in thugs from other countries to control the protests

Nice ain't it, a shame we only have the time to be outraged at one country at a time. Iran is definatily on my persons I don't like list, UNhjumenritescummizionslolz

When they are on the very short list of people both Fragony and Subotan dislike, there's definitely some justification.

new footage by the way absolutely graphic and positively heartbreaking https://www.youtube.com/verify_contr...%3D2mZlSkAuHnY

Absolutely awful. Going off tangent for a second, as TGA is a raging Europhile, you'll probably disagree with him on the majority of issues (Whilst I adore his work), but it's hard to disagree with this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ctions-nuclear

Iran will never again be the country it was before the election of 12 June 2009. In the great demonstration three days later, one of the largest in recorded history, everything was changed, changed utterly. In the subsequent repression, a terrible beauty was born. The historical process may take years, but one day, as the economy worsens and discontent spreads to more sections of society, the movement will be back in force, though perhaps in a different form. Eventually, in Iran there will be statues of Neda Agha-Sultan, the young woman shot in one of the early mass demonstrations, and memorials to the martyrs of this struggle for freedom, as there are now memorials to the martyrs of the Iran-Iraq war.