I’ve never understood this. Isn’t it in the interest of people in power or people jailing you to watch you starve to death? Yet in prisons and detention centers, it’s always the go-to. Why do they work?
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Original comments’ indicating it’s one of the only protests available to an inmate. It can prove a very effective type of protest as seen in Northern Ireland in the 80’s – even though 10 of them died it had a massive impact on the course of the troubles there – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Irish_hunger_strike
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