LIAM HANNAWAY HUNGER STRIKE

[Zapatista]

No its not, its normally a last resort.

There have been atleast 5 this year and many more that have made the threat. I'd call that common.

[Doogie Browser]

No its not, its normally a last resort.

There have been atleast 5 this year and many more that have made the threat. I'd call that common.

thats cleared up then

[glens abu]

The prisoners in Roe House are being subjected to a regime which seems not to have learned the history lesson from the H-Blocks and Armagh Women's prison in the seventies and eighties.



The essential and important difference between then and now is that the prisoners have their own clothes, live in segregated conditions and there is no British government sponsored campaign trying to criminalise them.


That to one side there is a common denominator and that is the attitude of the prison administration and in particular the Prison Officers Association towards the prisoners.



Incredible though it might seem with all the political changes that have taken place in the last decade-and-a-half which has delivered new politics on this island the six counties prison regime remains untouched and behaves as if it is a law onto itself and abuses the power it has over prisoners.



The day-to-day life of the prisoners amounts to inhuman and degrading treatment by the prison staff.

needs to be sorted but there is a big difference between now and 1976-1981

[Main Street]

People like this on hunger strike only serve to besmirch the honour of the previous hunger strikers, this man was never going to follow it through.  A disgrace to the honour of Booby Sands et al.

That's just madness. Hungerstrike is a common form of protestr. The hope is that no one dies on hungerstrike. It is a tool used to force an issue. Bobby Sands and his comrades were not setting a bench mark for future hungerstrikes. It is a disgrace to his honour to use his death to deter protest.

Many that write on this thread about this hunger strike would not know what a point of principle was, never mind being able  to shut their gob/give up food for 24 hours to defend that point of principle.