The Irish hunger strike

The hunger strike started as a passive protest because the police had convicted them as criminals but they thought they were guerillas or some sort of resistance. They refused to wear the criminal orange outfit they make you wear and in lack of other clothes they walked around wrapped in the blankets from their beds.

After a while they started smearing their excrement on the cell walls just to show the outside world that they were beeing treated like animals. Shortly after that they started with their hunger strike to protest even more to their uncooth treatment. The mothers of the men in the prison started a campaign to select Bobby Sands (one of the inmates) to their new representative in their parliament. Bobby was selected but even this didn't help to get the inmates out and not even approving a better lifestyle within the walls.

Ten people died during their 53 days long hunger strike until the strike was called of.

I thought the movie was very enlightening because you really get to see people that have a lifestyle that is so much worse. At least it makes me rethink my life and my priorities.. You should really see the movie because it is absolutely worth seeing.

// R4v3n