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Hunger strike - Definition and Overview

Related Words: Appetite, Cannibalism, Chewing, Consumption, Crave, Cropping, Deglutition, Desire

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.

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External link

  • Infoshop News (http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=04/08/21/6574363) - Palestinian Strike
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