New 1981 hunger strike documents disclosed
Published Thursday, September 2, 2010, 8:41 AM
Updated Thursday, September 2, 2010, 9:00 AM
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pilib04 | Jul 21, 2011, 01:46 PM EDT
Just another timely attempt to smear the hunger strikers of 1981. This being the 30th anniversary, of course the English will get their toadies to "release documents." The truth of the matter is quite different. If someone is truly interested they can research Tomas Cardinal O'Fiach's commentary. Bobby Sands Prison Diary is another source. Other sources remain the families of those who died. Thatcher is a MURDERER or as Danny Morrison describes her "the biggest bastard we have ever known"! Morrison edited a book called the Hunger Strike (Reflections on the 1981 Hunder Strike) that was published by the Bobby Sands Trust in 2006. Thatcher referred to the Hunger Strikers as "common criminals without public support."
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elektros | Sep 03, 2010, 03:57 PM EDT
It's a shame they died. I wish they were still with us. I wonder if those who died were even in any shape to have the offer read to them?
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hancock | Sep 03, 2010, 12:47 PM EDT
What do you care about IRA hunger strikers? They would presumably be scaumbags too.
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maireadinmelb | Sep 03, 2010, 05:20 AM EDT
Anyone who has researched or read about this era would be aware that the push for the second hunger strike came from within the prison! Bobby Sands acted against instructions from outside the prison! The offers put by the brits in these letters appear to be similar to the offer that finished the first hungers strike in Dec 1980 but the prisoners were against being tricked like this again. (the source of this research is Bobby Sands Prison Diary)
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Southernpride | Sep 02, 2010, 10:22 PM EDT
What does the Irish-American halfwit, scumbags who sent money to the IRA/Sinn Fein, terrorist scum, have to say about how the hungar strikers were allowed to die
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Southernpride | Sep 02, 2010, 03:26 PM EDT
"It had been alluded to in the past that the IRA sacrificed the hunger strikers to boost their electoral strategy and that they never told the strikers about offers provided by England to end the strikes".
This info proves what low-lifes the IRA and Sinn Fein are. A question for Adams and McGuinnes : "why did you allow the hunger strikers to die"... ?
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plasticpaddy | Sep 02, 2010, 12:52 PM EDT
Interesting stuff, wonder what else we will learn in the coming years. This doesn't really change anything about our current understanding of the Hunger Strikes, everyone knew the British were negotiation but from a position far removed from POW demands.
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