Hunger Page #4

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A group of Belfast boys

will get a hammering for sure.

So it's clear to me in an instant.

I get down on my knees on my knees and take the

foal's head in my hands and I put him underwater.

He's thrashing around, so I press down harder until he's drowned.

The priests arrived, Don.

Just grabbing me by the hair, dragging me

through the woods, promising me a proper punishment.

But I knew I did the right thing by that wee foal.

and I could take the punishment for all our boys.

I had the respect of the other boys now. And I knew that.

I'm clear of the reasons, Don.

And clear of all the repercussions.

But I will act and I will

not stand by and do nothing.

You can leave them there if you like.

Don't want me rolling up the letter of St. John, do you ?

Couldn't have that in my conscience, no.

I don't think I'm gonna see you again, Bobby.

There's no need, Don.

"Faced now with the failure

of their discredited cause,

the men of violence

have chosen in recent months

to play what may well be their last card,

They have turned their violence against themselves

through the prison hunger strike to death

They seek to work on the most basic

of human emotions, pity,

as a means of creating tension

and stoking the fires of bitterness and hatred.

And from week one there has been a gradual deterioration

of the liver, kidney and pancreatic function.

Also the bone density decreases substantially due to calcium and vitamin deficiencies.

The muscles of the heart

is also undernourished

causing impaired function

and eventually cardiac failure.

The left ventricle can shrink to 70%

of its normal size.

He will have low blood sugar, low

energy and muscular wasting.

He will be experiencing gastro- intestinal ulcers with the thinning

of the intestinal wall

and sub-mucosal hemorraging.

There will have been degenerative changes

to the mucous membranes of the intestines...

and indeed all the organs in the body.

UDA (Ulster Defense Alliance )

Name.

- Roselyn Sands.

Name.

- John Sands.

"People always ask us.

People always ask us.

Bobby, Bobby !

Who we are

And where we come from

And where we come from

And we tell them

And we tell them

We're from Belfast

We're from Belfast

The mighty, mighty Belfast

The mighty, mighty Belfast

And if they can't hear us

And if they can't hear us

we shout a little louder

We shout a little louder

Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike.

At that time he was elected to the British

Parliament M.P. for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.

After 7 months the strike was called off.

A further 9 men had died.

during the "blanket" and a "no-wash' protests.

In the following days and months,

the British Government effectively granted all the prisoners' demands

but without any formal

recognition of political status.

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