„Ich habe mich mit einem abgetrennten Bein in einer Leichenhalle versteckt“: Irans brutales Protestmassaker, von denen, die überlebt haben

**From The Telegraph:**

It is nearly a month since Iran’s theocratic regime responded to the most serious challenge to its rule for decades by massacring protesters in the streets.

But it has only been in the past few days, as authorities eased an internet blackout first imposed when they began their crackdown on January 8, that many Iranians outside of the country have begun to hear personal accounts of the bloodshed from affected friends and relatives.

A number of these harrowing stories – transmitted by voice notes sent from those still inside Iran – have been shared with The Telegraph. The picture that emerges from them is one of utter brutality – a clinical, state-sanctioned push to crush dissent in towns and cities across the country, propping up the regime in turn.

“The smell of blood was everywhere,” says Siavash*, a 23-year-old man who found himself caught up in a demonstration in Tehran after leaving his house to buy a birthday cake for his mother.

“I saw a father on his knees, trying to keep his son alive. I stepped forward to help,” he adds. Then, Siavash says, he felt a blow. “I felt like someone kicked my leg… and saw it wasn’t there any more. It was hanging by a strip of skin below the knee. I collapsed on to the body of the boy.”

Shortly after he was wounded – most likely by a high-calibre firearm – Siavash looked up to see a member of the security forces looming over him. “You’re still alive?” they asked.

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