This will also be of the conflict (of course for those who read this because they know me)
This time another group will have my attention, and yet again I will try to find a link to put at the end if you want to read more.
In a prison called Castlereagh in the year of 1981 ten men initiated a hungerstrike in protest of several conditions that they could not accept. Among those reasons:
* "Security forces" deployed to Northern Ireland who killed people later proven innocent were set free with the explanation that it was a war, and killing in war is not a crime. However the Irish who were found to retaliate were treated as a criminal. So obviously according to the brittish goverment it was a war with rules of engagement only affecting one side. Therefore Bobby Sands (see below) and the other of the strike wanted acknowledgment as prisoners of war.
* Several prisoners were proven to have been interminated (soory if I miss-spelled that one) only on the proof of their guilt breing that they confessed. Wich everyone knew was done because the brittish troopers tortured them until the point of confession. At least ten men were later freed (to be known as the Birmingham 6 and Guildfor 4) by Tony Blair (see, I admit when I consider the brits to do something good as well ;))
* While under internment several Irishmen have been proven to have been tortured...
(remember now, this is just over 20 years ago, not ancient past...)
These were the reasons for the ten brave men to instigate a hungerstrike that lasted untill death. Several world leaders have been known to have visited Castlereagh and trying to talk to the brittish govement. This however turned out to be fuitile attempts, as the criminals opposed brittish supremacy in a foreign contry they deserved but the cruelest of fates...
The names on this men, along with their time of death (all 1981) and days on hungerstrike...
Bobby Sands, May 5, 66 days
Francis Hughes, May 12, 59 days
Patsy O'Hara, May 21, 61 days
Raymond McCreesh, May 21, 61 days
Joe McDonell, July 1, 61 days
Martin Hurson, July 13, 46 days
Kevin Lynch, August 1, 71 days
Kieran Doherty, August 2, 73 days
Thomas McElwee, August 8, 62 days
Michael Devine, August 20, 60 days.
And the promised link
http://larkspirit.com/hungerstrikes/
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