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Morales ends hunger strike
La Paz :: Bolivia | 7 months ago
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Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has ended his five-day hunger strike after Bolivia's congress approved a new election law. The law permits Morales to stand again for election on December 6, reserves 14 congressional seats for indigenous candidates...
Tags: Bolivian, hunger strike, Evo Morales, ended hunger, president evo, bolivians president, electoral code, morales ended, decembe date, general elections
Tamil protesters target Kirribilli
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 months ago
Credibility The protestors are staging a sit-in in the roads outside the two buildings, calling on the Australian Government to push for an immediate and permanent ceasefire between Government forces and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Detective Inspector David Maguire...
Tags: Sri Lanka Army, sri lankan, lankan government, protesters outside, hunger strike, Sydney, tamils tigers
President sticks to hunger strike promise
La Paz :: Bolivia | 7 months ago
Credibility President Evo Morales has vowed to continue a hunger strike now three days old until opposition lawmakers approve an electoral law seen helping allies of the former coca farmer in a December vote. The leftist President, who says he once went without...
Tags: hunger strike, Evo Morales, Bolivian, electoral law, president evo, Hugo Chávez
Bolivian leader vows to continue hunger strike
Morales :: Guatemala | 7 months ago
Credibility Morales , who was awakened by reporters as he slept on an improvised bed on the floor of the Government House, said he was "going to continue the hunger strike," the Bolivian Information Agency said. "I feel that the opposition that does not understand...
Tags: hunger strike, Bolivian Information Agency, Evo Morales, president evo, electoral law, Mr. Morales
Tamil hunger striker suspends fast
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 months ago
Credibility The condition of the other appeared to be worsening markedly. Sivatharsan Sivakumaraval, 20, and Prarameswaran Subramaniam, 28, who set up camp in Parliament Square, have been on hunger strike since 6am on Tuesday. They agreed to take on liquids for the...
Tags: Sri Lankan, London, tamils eelam, hunger strike, Tamil Eelam
Tamil protesters suspend hunger strike
London :: United Kingdom | 7 months ago
Credibility Two Tamil students agreed Friday to suspend a hunger strike outside the British Houses of Parliament while one of them puts their case to the United Nations. Sivatharsan Sivakumaraval, 21, will fly to the United Nations in New York with Des Browne, a...
Tags: hunger strike, Northeastern Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan, tamils protesters, Sivatharsan Sivakumaraval, British Houses of Parliament, Central London, parliament square, tamils students, hunger strikers
Bolivian president declares hunger strike
La Paz :: Bolivia | 7 months ago
Credibility Bolivian President Evo Morales and representatives from the social sectors declared on Thursday a hunger strike to demand the approval of the new Electoral Regime to allow the advance of the elections in December 2009. "The radical opposition does...
Tags: hunger strike, Bolivian, Evo Morales, president evo, Mr Morales, electoral law, Senate, National Congress
Sri Lanka: Tamil Ex-MP to begin hunger strike in South Africa
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 months ago
Credibility Tamil Ex-MP to begin hunger strike in South Africa [TamilNet, Wednesday, 08 April 2009, 18:12 GMT] M.K.Eelaventhan, a former Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Member of Parliament in Sri Lanka, in a press statement issued Wednesday, announced he will begin...
Tags: Ramsey Clark, begin hunger, Sri Lanka, New York, hunger strike
Sri Lanka rejects UN call for ceasefire
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 8 months ago
Credibility Sri Lanka today rejected a call by the UN for a ceasefire in its military campaign against the Tamil Tigers, insisting it would not be trapped into letting the group's leaders escape. Sri Lanka has accused the Tigers of using the civilians as human shields...
Tags: Sri Lankan, fire zone, hunger strike, tamils protesters, Tamil Tigers
Visceral reality
Ira :: Burkina Faso | 8 months ago
Credibility Already a veteran Irish Republican Army volunteer serving his second penitentiary term at age 27, Bobby Sands was leader of Republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze, a.k.a...Early that year he commenced a hunger strike joined by numerous other inmates,...
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