The UK's Guardian newspaper is looking for assistance from the public in identifying victims of the arrests and violence in response to protests about the elections. I hadn't seen anything on DK about this yet, and this seems like a useful way to contribute. There are so many forgotten and unnamed heroes and heroines in the various and ongoing struggles for personal freedom and genuine democracy.
Here's the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
Hundreds, probably thousands, have been arrested in Iran since the
presidential election on 12 June. Human rights and campaign groups such as Human Rights Watch, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Reporters Without Borders have been collecting and publishing the names of those dead or detained.
We have brought those lists, and reports from trusted media sources, into a database that we are asking readers and those elsewhere on the internet to contribute too.
There's also information on how to "...download the full spreadsheet of the dead and detained" http://www.guardian.co.uk/...
I think about all the anonymous dead and detained in Myanmar, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Uighur in China, the Desaparecidos, the rebels who fought against Communism in Eastern Europe, and Nazis in WW2, the Slave Rebellions, the forgotten dead of Tiananmen Square and Chechenya and Timor and Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea, among others. I think this is a great idea, and hope that some DK'ers can contribute.
I also hope to see similar initiatives from US newspapers in the future!