On October 3, 1981, Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
Background to story: The IRA members Bobby Sands and Francis Hughes have died after a hunger strike in a Northern Ireland prison. Other IRA inmates are also fasting, and they seem determined to die too. All have been demanding the equivalent of political status as prisoners. This report examines the importance of political status in Northern Ireland, and the prospects for a solution to the present conflict.
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