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Bobby Sands: the hunger strike that changed history AFP 3 hrs ago © Paul FAITH A mural of Bobby Sands in republican wester Belfast in Northern Ireland Forty years ago this week Bobby Sands was the first of 10 Irish republican hunger strikers to die after refusing food for 66 days. Martyrs to many, others saw them as IRA terrorists . Sands slow lingering death in May 1981 proved to be a turning point in the bitter 30-year conflict over British rule in Northern Ireland. - The Troubles - Violence erupted in 1968 when police attacked a peaceful civil rights demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland s majority Catholic second city.

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