This candle is going out but this voice , will bring louder voices !

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Thursday July 14/ 2005

iran-emrooz online :

Akbar Ganji's 2nd letter to the free people of the world !

This candle is going out , but not its voice !

....This voice is the voice of peaceful co-existance , toleration of others, love to humanity, sacrifice for people, search for truth, love for freedom , love for democracy, respect for dissent, accepting different style of living, separation of government from civil society, separation of private life from public life, separation of religion from government, equality of all human , rationality, federalism within a democratic Iran , rejection of violence,.......

This candle is going out but this voice , will bring louder voices !
Today is ( Sunday July 10/2005 ) , its exactly 30 days after the start of my hunger strike , during two stages of hunger strike ( 11 days in the end of May and 30 days from june 11 ) , my weight have reduced to 55kg from 77 kg, meaning 22 kg less during 41 days of hunger strike .
For many who are living in the country as well as outside, this question exist that why i have decided to go to hunger strike and why through killing myself I want to arrive to my legitimate goals. Isen't it that by the rules of rationality, in order to reach to the goal, the tools and ways must suit oneanother ? Isen't it that the rules of rationality of openion for all claims ( beliefs ) is to have enough reason? Now what am i doing , is it suitable with the rationality of openion and deed ? What i have decided to follow, won't make me like a crazy person to the rational people , freedom lovers and human rights defenders ? At this time while i am pretty weak I'll try to explain clearly my position to all.

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This is just a portion of the letter
Translated by IRAN WATCH CANADA