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Source: https://www.thetimes.com/world/middle-east/article/iran-protests-news-deaths-jlxrrls8z
Inside Iran's Brutal Protest Crackdown: "It Feels Like Everyone Is Dead"
(The Times-UK) Gabrielle Weiniger - "It feels like everyone is dead. It feels like Armageddon," Iranian activist Rozita, 37, told The Times in the first message she had been able to get through since the internet blackout. "We were just ducks in front of the bullets. We are not armed. We are simple people. We are educated in universities, not in battle. We are looking for a peaceful life. We are not able to fight these shameless, brutal people." "For five days in a row, we were all out, we tried to overpower the regime. But they would come out, attack with their guns and wipe out the streets, they killed anyone outside. If you got injured and tried to run, they shoot you in the back of the head. If you're filming from your window, they shoot you....I'm sorry that I'm still alive. I feel guilty that I'm not dead and the others are." One protester injured by regime forces survived by hiding in a body bag among the dead at the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Center, south of Tehran, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center reported.