Cuba Support Group Ireland CSGI
October 3, 2023
Today marks the anniversary of the ending of the 1981 H-Block hunger strike. The heroic protest was forced upon Irish republican prisoners after 5 long years protesting against the withdrawal of political status for republican prisoners by the British Labor government on March 1st, 1976.
One month before the ending of the hunger strike, the late Fidel Castro spoke in Havana about the heroism of the ten who has died and the many others who were part of the struggle.
“In my opinion, Irish patriots are writing one of the most heroic chapters in human history.
They have earned the respect and admiration of the world, and likewise they deserve its support. Ten of them have already died in the most moving gesture of sacrifice, selflessness and courage one could ever imagine.
Humanity should feel ashamed that this terrible crime is being committed before its very eyes. These young fighters do not ask for independence or make impossible demands to put an end to their strike.
They ask only for something as simple as the recognition of what they actually are: political prisoners…
The stubbornness, intransigence, cruelty and insensitivity of the British Government before the international community concerning the problem of the Irish patriots and their hunger strike until death remind us of Torquemada and the atrocities committed by the Inquisition during the apogee of the Middle Ages…
Let tyrants tremble before men who are capable of dying for their ideals, after 60 days on hunger strike!”
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