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Hunger strikers

A memorial to the hunger strikers of 1981. They call themselves "volunteers", as do all the paramilitaries on both sides, because they really consider it a war. They were striking to be classified as political prisoners rather than as common criminals.

Belfast, Northern Ireland -- June 2000

Copyright © 1999-2004 by Mike (Sluggo) Orr
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