Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Neda Agha Sultan Video

Neda Agha Sultan was the young woman shot dead during the demonstrations over the Iranian electoral fraud of last week. There was a video taken of her death: showing the ubiquity of camera phones around the world. And, of course, the Neda Agha Sultan video was immediately loaded into Facebook, YouTube and all of the other social media. It's a textbook example of how the world has changed technologically since Tiananmen, since the Berlin Wall fell.
Neda Agha Sultan was 27 years old according to her fiance, Kasamin Makan. Speaking to BBC Persia, he said: "Neda's goal was not Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, it was her country and was important for her to fight for this goal. She had said many times that if she had lost her life or been shot in the heart, which indeed what happened, it was important for her to continue in this path."
The whole world is watching the protest for freedom and justice unfolding on the streets of Iran and it is something. Earlier it was a sea of faceless protest when the students and countrymen/ women got down on the streets but now the protests have been given a face. The face of Neda Agha Sultan.

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