Michelle Malkin » They killed Neda, but not her voice

They killed Neda, but not her voice

By Michelle Malkin • June 21, 2009 12:07 AM

Her name was Neda, which means “voice” in Farsi. According to numerous online accounts picked up by media outlets worldwide, she was shot in the streets by Iranian state police while protesting today. This is what repression looks (warning: graphic//update: vid link fixed):

Iranian blogger Madyar has a chilling still photo of the dying girl.

Steve Schippert pays tribute to the Voice of Iran.

The L.A. Times reports:

A copy of the video was also emailed to The Times. It seems to show a woman lying in the street with blood spurting from her chest. A man leans over, trying to stop the bleeding with his hands.

The footage, which can be viewed on YouTube, is extremely graphic. The identity of the woman could not be independently confirmed. But she is referred to on Twitter as Neda.

“#Neda: You are the VOICE of the people. You are a call to FREEDOM…..rip,” readd one of the many tweets about her apparent slaying.

CNN reports that pictures of the woman are appearing on posters in Tehran and she is being hailed as a martyr. The network broadcast an excerpt of the video with the face of the woman blurred out.

Iranian Americans also downloaded the video and used it to make posters, which were held up at a demonstration today outside the Federal Building in Westwood.

Her voice lives.

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Via Patterico, compare and contrast:

A waffle cone would have been more appropriate.

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Update: Allahpundit has the latest on Neda — her full name, new video apparently taken just before she was shot, and news of her funeral, which was canceled by the thug-ocracy.

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On June 27th, 2009 at 3:40 pm, Dave Turson said:

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On June 21st, 2009 at 10:53 am, jsmiddleton4 said:
Not only have I seen my share of death by all kinds of means, I have been so immersed in death I have seen it face to face and can still smell death in my nose hairs. One just learns to live with the smell as it won’t go away. …We need be VERY careful here folks. This thing looks staged to me and I’m not some wide eyed rookie. We and the Iranians do not need staged death videos for us to be 100% in support of the Iranians resisting its religious totalitarian government. That is what Hamas does as a strategy to get the lunatic left all worked up. We don’t need this kind of video and the damage IF it is staged that it could do is not worth the risk.

An expert at detecting faked deaths from blurry cellphone videos. What a waste of time reading this garbage. Our video death experts should contact Dr. Arash Hejazi before the Iranian clerics get their grubby hands on him and set him straight.