From: "Stasi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> laims 40th Life - BBC Thursday, 4 October, 2001, 17:42 GMT 18:42 UK Turkish hunger strike claims 40th life ========================= http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1579000/1579471.stm Prisoners are starving themselves to death in protest By Tabitha Morgan in Nicosia Another hunger striker has died after starving himself in protest at controversial prison reforms in Turkey, bringing the total number of deaths among fasting inmates to 40. Hundreds of prisoners have been refusing to take food since last October to try to force the government to abandon plans to transfer inmates to smaller cells. Prisoners are held in groups of two or three in the new cells Thirty-one-year-old Mustafa Coskun died in hospital in Ankara. Protestors and their supporters are opposed to the replacement of the current dormitory system of accommodation with individual cells. They say that prisoners held singly or in groups of two or three will be vulnerable to assaults by the authorities and will be kept isolated from other inmates. Government resolute A year after the protests first began, the government says it will not be coerced into changing its policy. It argues that the current dormitory system, with as many as 80 prisoners sleeping in one room, leads to anarchy and hostage taking and makes Turkey's prisons ungovernable. Last month, four people were killed in the centre of Istanbul when a suicide bomber blew himself up in protest at the new-style prisons. The far-left People's Liberation Party Front, one of the main groups involved in organising the hunger strikes, claimed responsibility. While it is not possible to say exactly how many people are on hunger strike at any one time, the protests show no sign of abating. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Pv4pGD/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/XcSolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Peoples_War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." Fidel Castro "There is no revolution without violence. Those who don�t accept violence can cross out the word revolution from their dictionary." Malcolm X "The Marxist-Leninist doctrine on class struggle and the dictatorship of the proletariat affirms the role of violence in revolution, makes a distinction between unjust, counter-revolutionary violence and just, revolutionary violence, between the violence of the exploiting classes, and that of the masses." General Vo Nguyen Giap "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao Tse-Tung Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
