Thursday, March 11, 2010

I wish for them not to lose hope - Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel congratulates the Iranian students and tells them not to lose hope:


"Of course all of us are interested in Iran's nuclear program and the nature of the current regime, just as we are interested in the abuses committed under the flag of Islam and whether or not the 2009 election was rigged. However, what I am most interested in are the brutal violations of human rights. I found myself in high political position thanks to peaceful public demonstrations and thanks to the students, who led them and made them happen. As a result, I have an elevated sensitivity for certain things and am deeply outraged and shocked that for participating in similar demonstrations in Iran, people are not only being sentenced to several years in prison, but are even being executed. It seems to me like an endless barbarity and I firmly believe this savagery is about to come to an end.

"I congratulate Majid Tavakoli and Abdollah Momeni for receiving the Homo Homini Award. I am glad that the prize has been given to them and I wish for them not to lose hope."

Vaclav Havel

4 comments:

Sohrab said...

Beautiful!

Arash said...

Excellent message :)

Anonymous said...

This movement will not get anywhere not because I don't want it to but because the foundations on which it is built on is utterly flawed - until a point where Iranians realise that their struggle is not against a regime or a set of people / rulers and it is against a 1400 year old barbaric ideology based on violence, peadphilia and lies we will not get anywhere. OUr fight is against the darkness of Islam - we should cease listening to the likes of Soroush and Kadivar and other 'religious intellectuals' who try and buy time for the regime and try and show Islam in a peaceful light.

Islam is a religion of hate, of rape, of ignorance and of murder - there is nothing peaceful about this religion and I wish us Iranians would recognise this fact because once we all do, the freedom we attain will never be taken away from us.

Marg bar Jahl!
Payandeh Iran va ayeen e risheyee.

Anonymous said...

This movement will not get anywhere not because I don't want it to but because the foundations on which it is built on is utterly flawed - until a point where Iranians realise that their struggle is not against a regime or a set of people / rulers and it is against a 1400 year old barbaric ideology based on violence, peadphilia and lies we will not get anywhere. OUr fight is against the darkness of Islam - we should cease listening to the likes of Soroush and Kadivar and other 'religious intellectuals' who try and buy time for the regime and try and show Islam in a peaceful light.

Islam is a religion of hate, of rape, of ignorance and of murder - there is nothing peaceful about this religion and I wish us Iranians would recognise this fact because once we all do, the freedom we attain will never be taken away from us.

Marg bar Jahl!
Payandeh Iran va ayeen e risheyee.