IRA Hunger Strike

Witness History: Archive 2013 - Een podcast door BBC World Service

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In 1981 the British government was faced with prisoners on hunger strike. The Irish republican activists were demanding to be treated as political prisoners not criminals. Several of them died in Northern Ireland - hear from one who survived.(Photo: Protestors wearing balaclavas in support of the hunger strike. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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