Breaking: Witness to the massacre in Tehran's Baharestan Square on the phone to CNN

[Turborama]

Run time: 02:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTj-1MLuw2w   Posted on YouTube: June 24, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 24, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 851

 
Kpete's been reporting this in LBN: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3936972

[tomm2thumbs]

1. Iran, by blanking out media, is actually hurting their cause in some ways

the dramatic details that are sometimes lost with video -the personal pain - is coming to light because there are no other sources. Yes video does help and can paint a true picture, but they are showing that the government has something to hide and then the stories that come out only confirm it in frightening detail. People's imagination sometimes is stronger than imagery and they are causing folks to imagine the worse and this may be in fact just what the world needs to do in order to stop this.

No doubt video imagery would be helpful to confirm her account and truly prevent the Iranian government from lying about voice accounts, but this is truly powerful human to human communication by voice.

[Turborama]

2. Here's the full version with a google map of the square

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoIKM8nCusU

[JayMusgrove]

3. Thanks for that link!

Terrifying.