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Hunger strike - Definition and Overview |
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A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest or to achieve a goal such as a policy change.
Mohandas Gandhi engaged in two famous hunger strikes. The first protested British rule of India; the second, autocratic rule in the newly self-governed India.
Bobby Sands was one of ten Irish nationalist paramilitary prisoners who died due to a hunger strike in 1981. This hunger strike was a protest against the revocation by the British of a prisoner of war-like Special Category Status for paramilitary-linked prisoners held in Northern Ireland.
In recent years, many Kurdish separatists in Turkish jails have died on hunger strike.
Reference
External link
- Infoshop News (http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/08/21/6574363) - Palestinian Strike
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Example Usage of Hunger |
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sandra_bloggt: RT @MichaelJaegerTV: UI, fein, #Königin hat Pizza Hawaii mitgebracht, Ofen an, Twitter off Tweetul8er - tschüüü und guten Hunger an euch ;) |
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westhickey: If all the people playing Farmville on FB took up actual farming, we could end world Hunger... |
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deathnrollband: I will kill what is killing me: The Hunger. Time for lunch \m/ |
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