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"A revoloution without sacrifices wouldn't be a revoloution"

I can't remember where I read this sentence, but it was recently. Could have been in a Swedish newspaper or online somewhere. What the writer says is that a revoloution needs its sacrifices in order to be a revoloution and in order to create awareness and support. It has the same effect as martyrdom. It creates the energy, strenght and beliefs needed in order for a people to rise and join hands. It creates symbols and a value to a fight and a struggle.

We have all seen the eyes of Neda who dies on the streets of Tehran. The fear, the horror. Her death can not be in vain and one thing is for sure: the people of Iran and the rest of the world, will make sure it's not in vain. Even if we have seen revoloutions getting brutaly crushed by armed forces before (The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, for instance), we have also seen the opposite. Countries and people who today have risen from the old and strenghtened starting to move towards a brighter future. The people of Ukrain saw victory after "The Orange revoloution" in 2005 and so did the Romanian people after their revoloution in 1989. Those successfull events needed their symbols, their lost loved ones and the sacrifices. It empowered them. And they won.

But things have changed. We live in a modern world (so we would like to call it) where diplomacy should be the first option and not violence. The questions is: how many more sacrifices are needed in Iran? We can only pray it is enough. The world is watching and the only clever thing to do now for Ahmadinejad would be to step down. Now.

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