Who is neda, an Iranian girl and what is her importance in the current protests?
“RIP NEDA, The World cries seeing your last breath, you didn’t die in vain. We remember you.” That post on Twitter came from a man who identified himself as an American guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee. Amid the hundreds of images and videos of Saturday’s brutal crackdown on protesters in Iran that flooded the Internet, it was the graphic video showing the death of a young woman that touched a nerve among those following the events in Tehran for more than a week. Like most of the information coming out of Tehran, it is impossible to verify her name, Neda, or the circumstances of her apparent death, captured close-up on a bystander’s camera. CNN ran a pixilated version of the video, which was posted on YouTube. It shows a woman in jeans and white sneakers collapsed on the street, as the person with the camera — most likely from a cell phone — runs toward her and focuses on her face. http://www.cnn.
A 40 second video clip of an Iranian girl, named “Neda,” the Farsi word for voice, allegedly shot dead by a Basij soldier has been circulating the web as of Saturday. Her shooting comes as Iran faces demonstrations in the magnitude not seen since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The footage shows the girl, with a singe bullet wound in her chest, lying on her back as her family tries to unsuccessful save her. Blood is first seen leaving her chest, and later flowing from her mouth and nose as her face is eventually left covered in blood. 2 minutes later she was pronounced dead. Neda Iran Posted: 21-06-2009 , 07:15 GMT iran1A 40 second video clip of an Iranian girl, named “Neda,” the Farsi word for voice, allegedly shot dead by a Basij soldier has been circulating the web as of Saturday. Her shooting comes as Iran faces demonstrations in the magnitude not seen since the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The footage shows the girl, with a singe bullet wound in her chest, lying on her back as her family
A graphic video has emerged on YouTube which appears to show failed attempts to resuscitate a teenage girl on the street after she was shot by militia. The girl, known as Neda and thought to be 16, has become both a martyr and rallying cry for those opposed to the Iranian hardline government. “Neda, your death will not be in vain,” reads one message on Twitter, where her name is being used as a call sign for anti-government bloggers and is one of the site’s most mentioned words. The deaths follow threats from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday that fresh opposition unrest would be met with “blood, violence and chaos”. Sources: http://n
