Kamangir (Archer)

No More Martyrs

Kamangir | March 22, 2009 | Category Iranian Bloggers

Omid Reza Mir Sayafi was not the typical blogger whom you would think they would “take care of” in Evin. And yet they did. He was pushed to the verge of depression and according to some reports he committed suicide and passed away, when not given medical care by the authorities. Just one other dead body in “Iran’s path towards freedom”. Or maybe not?

We have had enough dead people and enough lives have been destroyed behind the thick walls of Evin. Now, we have two problems. One, we, Iranians, are martyr-lovers. At the beginning of every city and village they put up a “Welcome to Such” sign and then they add “The City of Martyrs” or “The Martyr-Raising City of Such”. The Islamic Republic indeed loves martyrs, but we do too. We love sacrifices. What these sacrifices are for, and if the act of tunneling the energy of the Iranian youth into becoming activists is going to exactly do what is what I do not understand. The second problem is that the “others” like “Iranian martyrs in the war against tyranny”.

Enough people! We, the Iranian youth, need to read books and watch documentaries and talk. We need to talk. We need to do it for many many years. There are a lot of Ahmadinejads amongst us and no blood would wash that away. We need to think and talk.

No more martyrs!

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