Did Bobby Sands do a dirty protest?

Did Bobby Sands do a dirty protest?

The 1981 Irish hunger strike began on 1 March when Bobby Sands refused food, and the dirty protest ended the following day. By the time the hunger strike ended on 3 October ten men, including Sands, had starved to death.

What did Bobby Sands stand for?

He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike in which Irish republican prisoners protested against the removal of Special Category Status. During Sands’s strike, he was elected to the British Parliament as an Anti H-Block candidate.

What is the blanket protest during the Irish Troubles?

The blanket protest was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze prison (also known as “Long Kesh”) in Northern Ireland.

What caused the 1981 hunger strike?

The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976, when the British government withdrew Special Category Status (prisoner of war rather than criminal status) for convicted paramilitary prisoners.

Did hunger strikers drink water?

The ten men survived without food for 46 to 73 days, taking only water and salt, before succumbing. After the deaths of the men and severe public disorder, the British Government granted partial concessions to the prisoners, and the strike was called off.

What does INLA stand for?

The Irish National Liberation Army
The Irish National Liberation Army (INLA, Irish: Arm Saoirse Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is an Irish republican socialist paramilitary group formed on 10 December 1974, during the 30-year period of conflict known as “the Troubles”.

What was the longest hunger strike?

India’s Mahatma Gandhi staged several hunger strikes to protest British rule, the longest said to have been 21 days. Bobby Sands, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), starved himself to death in 1981 after 66 days on hunger strike while demanding to be treated as a political prisoner, not as a criminal.

Who was the first blanket man?

Kieran Nugent (1958 – 4 May 2000) was an Irish volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and best known for being the first IRA ‘blanket man’ in the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland.

What happens if a prisoner goes on hunger strike?

One is to put decisionmaking responsibility on the shoulders of the prison medical officer. The hunger striker would be admitted to the prison hospital and treated as a patient. The second approach is to require prisons to temporarily release hunger strikers and reincarcerate them when they recover.

Who did longest hunger strike in jail against Britishers?

Jatindra Nath Das