Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feud among U.N. officials. Enraged by Serb blockades that prevented U.N. food convoys from reaching 100,000 Muslims trapped in besieged towns in eastern Bosnia, Muslim President Alija Izetbegovic stopped distribution of U.N. relief supplies to the 380,000 residents of Sarajevo -- in effect pushing them into a sympathetic hunger strike. In disgust at the intransigence on all sides, Sadako Ogata, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, ordered a stop to all U.N. relief efforts until they can be carried out without hindrance. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali promptly rebuked her and ordered shipments resumed, remarking, "I am supposed...
Rarely have Armenians felt so abandoned. Says Khachig Stambultsyan, a parliamentary Deputy: "The entire world is watching with its arms folded while we die of cold and hunger." Russia could probably provide more assistance, but President Yeltsin, for all his sympathy for Armenia, clearly is not about to get caught in a war in the Caucasus, especially at the risk of alienating his own country's Muslim minority...
...fences and plagued by banana rats. Last year the Bush Administration ruled that they had plausible claims for political asylum. But because most of them tested positive for the AIDS virus, they are barred from the U.S. Suspicious of their captors and even their doctors, many have staged a hunger strike, and their situation has now become critical. "The next few days will determine whether or not the Haitians live or die," says attorney Michael Ratner...
Demjanjuk and his three children begin a hunger strike. He falls to appear for a court date...
Bill Clinton's Inauguration Day was much like any other in Haiti, full of hunger, fear, gunfire and, most of all, uncertainty about the future. In the slums of Port-au-Prince, there were high hopes for "the democrat Clinton" with a small d. Deep in a warren of concrete hovels without running water or sanitation, a voodoo priest sat beneath the corrugated tin roof of his temple. The people of his neighborhood, he said, had supported Clinton despite reprisals from the army that rules the country. "A lot of people were beaten up here because we believed in Clinton...