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I would pray if I could. Oscar Wilde once wrote about "these Christs that die upon the barricades/God knows that I am with them in some things". I wish I was like them in all things. Steve K. ______________________________________________________ >From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Another Turkish Martyr [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 09:23:46 -0800 (PST) > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK >--------------------------- > >[For those of us who pray, this is a moment for it.] > >Prison Hunger Striker Dies in Turkey >The Associated Press >Tuesday, January 8, 2002; 11:22 AM >ISTANBUL, Turkey �� A woman who was among dozens of >prison inmates staging a hunger strike in Turkey died >Tuesday after fasting for more than seven months. >Lale Colak, 27, was the 45th person to die in the >yearlong protest over Turkey's new maximum security >prison system. About 100 inmates continue to starve >themselves to death, taking vitamins and sugared water >to prolong their fast. >The independent Human Rights Association said she died >in a hospital in Istanbul 10 days after she was >discharged from prison because her health was failing. >Colak had been jailed for being a member of an >outlawed leftist group, the Union of Revolutionary >Communists of Turkey, or TIKB. >Leftist prisoners and their supporters began the fast >to protest the government's policy of moving prisoners >from large wards housing up to 100 people to one- or >three-inmate cells. >Prisoners say small cells leave them isolated and >vulnerable to abuse by guards. The government says the >large wards became virtual training camps for >militants. >Militant leftist groups leading the strike have >claimed responsibility for a number of assassinations >and bombings since the 1970s. > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! >http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ > > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
