Posted on 06/26/2009 1:49:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
LONDON (Reuters) - One person captured on Internet videos helping "Neda," the young Iranian woman killed last week who has become an icon of the protests, was identified by a British newspaper on Friday as a doctor who has since fled Iran.
"I felt she was trying to ask a question, 'Why?'," Dr. Arash Hejazi told the Times in an interview as he recalled her final moments lying in a street with blood pouring from her body.
"She was just a person in the street who was against the injustice going on in her country, and for that she was murdered," said Hejazi, an Iranian who is resident in Britain but says he went to Tehran on a business trip.
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And sadly it seems that the whole world has gone even crazier. All I am seeing on tv is Michael Jackson.
One child-molesting pop superstar singer should not be put on a pedestal above dozens, maybe hundreds of Iranian protesters being killed, wounded or arrested, don’t you think?
No wonder human life is cheapened these days, and the price varies according to fame.
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