Sunday, June 21, 2009

The Vicious Cycle of History

Haven't seen the YouTube videos from this week-end of the young woman shot on a Tehran street after – blood pouring from her mouth and across her face is not my cup of tea — but I hear it is making the Twitter & Facebook rounds. Time magazine has an interesting piece on the 3, 7 and 40 day mourning period and what it will means over the next couple of days and weeks, and how deaths durning those mourning periods will start the cycle all over again if hiostory is any guide.

The first clashes in January 1978 produced two deaths that were then commemorated on the 40th day in mass gatherings, which in turn produced new confrontations with security forces — and new deaths. Those deaths then generated another 40-day period of mourning, new clashes, and further deaths. The cycle continued throughout most of the year until the shah's ouster in January 1979.

 

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