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| Turkish thugette starves herself to death... |
| 2003-01-12 |
| Another Turkish prisoner has died on a hunger strike, raising the death toll in the protest against Turkey's maximum security prisons to 64 people, a prisoner support group said Sunday. Oh, damn. I left my sympathy in my other pants. Can I empathize next week? Ozlem Turk, 27, starved to death Saturday after fasting for 471 days, the group Ozgur Tayad said. The hunger strikers take vitamins and sugared water to prolong their fast. Human rights groups allege the protesters are also force-fed. Turk had been imprisoned for membership in the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, or DHKP-C, a banned Marxist group, Ozgur Tayad said. Due to deteriorating health, she was transferred in August to the Ankara hospital where she died. She will be missed. Well, by her Mom, I guess... Leftist prisoners and their supporters began the fast in October 2000 in protest of the government's policy of moving prisoners from large wards housing up to 100 people to one- or three-inmate cells. The government says that the large wards grew out of control and became virtual training camps for militants. But inmates say the smaller cells leave them isolated and vulnerable to abuse by guards. Maybe they shouldn't have hosed up their previous arrangement, then. Did they expect to get something better? Ozgur Tayad said 16 prisoners and two others are pressing forward with the protest. No skin off my fore. The DHKP-C, which is leading the strike, has claimed responsibility for a number of assassinations and bombings since the 1970s. Since they're jugged, and they can't find anybody to kill, they'll just go ahead and kill themselves. Sounds good to me. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Sounds like he did as well as anyone can hope to in a marxist state: that is starve! Starve as in starve to death while the fascist pimps running things (into the ground) eat caviar and spout platitudes to the inferior masses, all thewhile expecting to be worshiped as saints in the supreme soviet. as Beria, Stalin et al. N. Korea anyone? China? Marxism is the single greatest murdering machine in history before Islam, and that how most of the murders took place; starvation. until the leaders of ... oh yes, the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Party-Front start starving, justice will be lacking |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-13 00:22:56 |
| #3 Marxist? Did someone forget to send them the memo? |
| Posted by: John Anderson 2003-01-12 22:13:29 |
| #2 471 Days!?! Must of been quite a blob when she came in. And vitamins and sugar water on your Belfast/Slimfast are cheating...Bobby Sands didn't need no steenkin' sugar water! Oh, and complain when they die, complain when they're (force) fed. Whatever. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-12 21:58:41 |
| #1 Welllll then..OK. The Gubmint's wrong for overcrowding, then for splitting them up? I'd make sure the fasting crowd was made to serve the meals for the rest....heh heh |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-01-12 18:18:03 |