Afghan refugees stage hunger strike

Afghan refugees stage hunger strike

MATARAM, West Nusa Tenggara: Three Afghan refugees began a
hunger strike on Tuesday and sewed their mouths shut, after a
similar protest earlier in the year.

The protest is aimed at pressuring the United Nations High
Commissioners for Refugee into sending dozens of Afghan refugees
to a third country willing to accept them.

The refugees, who are being housed in the Nusantara Building
in Ampenan, said they would remain on strike until the death if
their demand was not met.-- JP