It 's a shame that meets Verona often "absent" in public events such as the one held in Piazza Bra on Saturday, August 22.
The event for Iranian women "could be an excellent way to show our solidarity with the widows and mothers who lost their husband and / or children in the protests against the election that saw Ahmadinejad not win without a controversy. Unfortunately, the number of those present did not exceed twenty people. The low number of participants has not intimidated, however, the "ladies dressed in black, that they have taken an hour posters that you see in the picture.
"Why?" You will be asked some passing curiosity. Why are women so Committee of the mourning mothers (Iranian) every Saturday from 19 to 20 gather in the squares and streets of their city. Absolutely silent. Not to forget, indeed, to remember.
a courageous act that is spreading throughout Europe, where many women want to outsource their proximity to these mothers felt emulating this ritual.
anyone stopping to look, someone asked for information, someone walked away after a quick peek at billboards, someone we did not even notice.
writes Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, in the letter of appeal to all women aware of the world (which was delivered in paper to passers-by):
"The tragedy of Iran is much broader than we ever could have imagined.
The people took to the streets to peacefully express dissent to the election results received in response to bullets and batons, and many of the survivors were arrested in the days following the protests.
programs of radio and Iranian state television announced first 8 deaths, then 11, but more than a month of street demonstrations, the names of many "disappeared" or are not in the list of those arrested or killed.
Many anxious mothers continue to ask the authorities about their missing loved ones, but do not receive responses. Now that families are slowly getting the bodies of their sons killed, it became clear that the number of deaths is much higher than that announced by the Government of the Islamic Republic. In addition, families were forced to sign agreements in which they undertake not to disclose how and where their loved ones died.
But you can not hide the truth, it is not possible to silence the cries, so the tragedy is showing ever more clearly in the eyes of the Iranian people, in As the days pass.
Many mothers whose sons and daughters have been killed or are yet
ra among the missing or are in prison have formed the Committee of mourning mothers . Every Saturday from 7 to 8 night, mothers and other women of this committee in solidarity with them, dressed in black in mourning and in silence, gather in public parks in their cities and standing, alert and silent to express their grief.
I wish to express my deep sorrow and condolences to the mothers who lost their loved ones for freedom and democracy in Iran, I stand in solidarity with the mothers who are still looking for their lost children and join my sorry for the large number of young Iranian men and women in prison for their peaceful civil activism.
(This post should have been published last Saturday, but for personal reasons my brother and I have some difficulties to update the blog these days. We apologize for the inconvenience .)
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