Recently, I spoke with leading activists who are deeply engaged in the democracy struggle.

“We confront their bullets,” said one of them. “We put our heads under their clubs. We sacrifice and do as much as we can. Soon we will be thrown in prison again. We don’t know when we will come out from that hell. Who outside can carry out this task?”

That is the question the pro-democracy movement inside and outside the country and the international community must now answer.